CLASS  OF  1866 
DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE 

FIFTIETH  REUNION,  1916 


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CLASS  OF  1866 
DARTMOUTH  COLLEGE 


RECORDS 

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MEMORIALS 


Semi-Centennial  Anniversary 

Hanover,  New  Hampshire 

June  19,  1916 


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PRELIMINARY 

The  following  pages  have  been  compiled  in  pur- 
suance of  a  vote  by  members  of  the  Class  of  1866, 
assembled  at  dinner  at  the  Parker  House,  Boston, 
April  30,  1915,  on  invitation  of  our  classmate,  Nathan 
Parker  Hunt,  of  Manchester,  N.  H. 

It  was  then  voted  that  a  memorial  of  the  class  be 
prepared  and  printed,  in  anticipation  of  our  semi- 
centennial anniversary  to  be  held  in  Hanover,  June, 
1916. 

OBJECT  OF  THE  RECORD 

The  class  presents  these  private  and  personal 
records,  not  from  ostentation  but  from  a  loyal  desire 
to  perpetuate  the  memories  of  four  years'  happy 
association  in  the  pursuit,  successful  for  the  most  part, 
of  art,  science,  sociability,  letters,  morals  and  religion. 

Than  such  scholarly  ties  there  are  few  indeed  that 
are  stronger,  and,  looking  backward,  we  surely  do 
well  to  resurrect  these  associations  and  connect  them 
with  their  varied  developments  in  subsequent  years. 

But  to  accomplish  this,  something  beyond  personal 
conference  is  required.  Tradition  is  unsafe,  verbal 
communications  lapse  into  silence,  but  the  written 
word  remains. 

Thanks  are  due,  and  extended,  to  those  members 

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of  the  class  who  have  assisted  in  collecting  the  scat- 
tered and  fragmentary  memoranda  which  of  neces- 
sity make  up  the  present  record,  —  especially  with 
reference  to  deceased  members,  where  detailed  informa- 
tion was  difficult  or  impossible  to  obtain. 

THE  DARTMOUTH  OF  1866 
"Remote,  unfriended,  melancholy,  slow,"  might 
well  characterize  the  Dartmouth  of  our  era  if  com- 
pared with  its  phenomenal  development  today.  And 
yet,  under  all  stresses  of  time  and  occasion,  there 
have  always  been  those  who  have  loved  her,  and 
loved  her  the  more  in  the  hours  of  her  distresses  and 
disabilities.  The  Civil  War  might  diminish  her  reve- 
nues and  decimate  her  classes,  but  it  could  not  destroy 
the  immortal  Dartmouth  spirit  that,  allowing  for 
unfavorable  conditions,  was  as  much  in  evidence  then 
as  now. 

The  college  was  never  more  august  than  when,  in 
defence  of  the  Union,  so  large  a  proportion  of  her 
devoted  sons  abandoned  the  still  delightful  air  of  their 
studies,  and  voluntarily  sought  the  arduous  duties 
of  camp  and  field.  It  was  a  time  to  echo  back  the 
challenge  of  the  Puritan  poet  of  Old  England: 

"The  forward  youth  that  would  appear 
Must  now  forsake  his  Muses  dear, 
Nor  in  the  shadows  sing 
His  numbers  languishing. 

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"  Tis  time  to  leave  the  books  in  dust 
And  oil  the  unused  armour's  rust, 
Removing  from  the  wall 
The  corselet  of  the  hall." 

"How  far  that  little  candle  throws  its  beams," 
and  how  magnificently  Dartmouth  did  its  part  in  the 
remaking  of  a  nation!  With  other  classes  of  that 
period  the  Class  of  1866  did  its  full  share  in  that  heroic 
enterprise,  as  the  record  will  show,  Abbott,  Atkinson, 
Johnson,  Kingsley,  Marion,  Neal,  Perrin,  Sherman, 
Wardwell,  Webster  and  Whittemore  having  served 
in  various  capacities  in  the  army  or  navy  of  the  Union. 

SUBSEQUENT  YEARS 

After  the  war  the  college  slowly  emerged  from  its 
temporary  eclipse,  and  from  that  time  may  be  reckoned 
the  planting  of  those  seeds  of  success,  the  full  flower 
of  which  we  are  witnessing  today.  The  present  is 
truly  worthy  of  our  pride  and  congratulation,  but 
not  at  the  price  of  any  diminution  of  honor  to  the 
beloved  college  of  our  early  manhood.  The  young 
men  who  profited  by  the  personal  magic  of  Putnam, 
by  the  felicitous  phrases  of  Brown  or  the  semi- 
humorous  disquisitions  of  Sanborn,  by  the  apt  clas- 
sical versatilities  of  Aiken,  by  the  towering  theological 
architecture  of  Noyes  (now,  alas,  not  a  little  dilapi- 
dated by  time),  by  the  terrible,  if  sublime,  demonstra- 
tions   of    logic,     optics,      mathematics,  —  "id    omne 

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genus,"  —  by  Varney,  Fairbanks,  Woodman  and 
Quimby,  together  with  the  coruscations  of  rhetoric 
and  oratory,  under  the  guise  of  astronomy,  by  the 
gifted  Patterson  —  these  young  men  need  not  deplore 
any  lack  of  stimulus  to  ambition,  and  may  well  justify 
the  Alma  Mater,  which,  under  so  many  limitations  and 
with  so  many  sacrifices,  did  her  full  measure  of  duty  in 
nerving  her  children  for  the  battle  and  conquest  of  life. 

OUR  PRESIDENTS 

The  class,  too,  was  fortunate  in  its  presidents. 
No  college  had  a  sturdier  specimen  of  manhood  than 
President  Nathan  Lord,  nor  one  more  willing  to  pay 
an  exorbitant  price  for  the  majesty  of  conscientious 
personal  opinion.  President  Smith  was  of  a  less  rugged 
type,  but  displayed  the  iron  hand  under  the  velvet 
glove  to  perfection.  Such  men,  by  precept  and  ex- 
ample, were  an  education  in  themselves,  and  Dart- 
mouth will  bear  the  stamp  of  their  individualities  for 
generations  to  come.  Similar  honor  should  be  given 
our  devoted  instructors,  who,  under  the  strain  of 
insufficient  compensation  and  the  temptation  of  gain- 
ing greater  emolument  elsewhere,  stood  their  ground 
for  the  good  of  the  college  not  less  heroically  than  if 
they  had  ventured  their  lives  on  the  field  of  battle. 

THE   STAGE-SETTING 

Environment  is  no  inconsiderable  factor  of  value 
when  it  has  to  do  with  reminiscence.  The  surroundings 

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of  the  college  were  always  entrancing  from  the  time 
when  the  elder  Wheelock  cleared  a  sunlight  space 
on  what  is  now  the  southeast  corner  of  the  present 
campus.  What  beauty  trees  add  to  any  landscape! 
Many  of  the  ancient  denizens  of  the  forest  were  monu- 
mental, one  of  these  monarchs  of  the  wood  reaching, 
as  recorded,  a  height  of  nearly  three  hundred  feet. 
But  the  beautiful  Connecticut  was  the  piece-de- 
resistance  of  our  scenic  college  banquet.  To  para- 
phrase Dr.  Boteler,  "Doubtless  God  could  have 
made  a  more  fascinating  river,  but  as  certainly  he 
never  did."  From  Long  Island  Sound  to  Canada 
no  college  has  so  grand  an  asset  of  attraction.  From 
the  hour  when  John  Ledyard  launched  his  log  canoe 
on  its  bosom,  how  many  generations  of  students 
have  yielded  to  the  seductions  of  the  Indian  stream, 
and  have  along  its  lofty  or  level  banks  sounded  the 
depths  and  shallows  of  that  sublime  current,  the 
river  of  human  life!  Truly  a  thing  of  beauty  is  a  joy 
forever,  and  dreams  of  her  loveliness  will  always  mingle 
with  our  more  serious  memories  of  old  Dartmouth. 

STUDIES 

The  courses  of  study  need  not  be  particularly 
enumerated.  To  refresh  our  recollections,  suffice  it 
to  say  we  were  treated  to  the  ordinary  pabulum  of 
the  colleges  of  that  period.  Allopathic  doses  of  Greek 
and  Latin,  homeopathic  pellets  of  French  and  Ger- 

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man,  a  modicum  of  natural  and  a  surplusage  of  moral 
and  intellectual  philosophy,  with  applied  and  un- 
applied theology  ad  nauseam,,  stiff  rations  of  indigest- 
ible mathematics,  with  slight  ticklings  of  political 
science  and  the  briefest  excursions  into  rhetoric  and 
belles-lettres  —  all  these,  in  effect,  made  up  our  lever- 
age of  power  on  future  times  and  events. 

RECREATIONS 

The  apparatus  for  recreation  in  our  day,  varying 
from  the  sublime  to  the  ridiculous,  was  primitive, 
not  to  say  antediluvian.  Some  of  the  items  were 
as  follows:  Compulsory  attendance  at  church  and 
chapel;  the  libraries  of  the  United  Fraternity  and  the 
Social  Friends;  Greek-letter  societies  —  Alpha  Delta 
Phi,  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon,  Kappa  Kappa  Kappa,  and 
Psi  Upsilon;  cards,  dice,  billiards,  bowls,  football, 
cane  rushes,  hornings,  howlings,  to  music  and  other- 
wise, internal  irrigations  with  fumigations  on  the 
side,  and  all  the  other  nameless  effervescences  of  un- 
disciplined youth  under  cover  of  atra  nox  or  lucida 
luna. 

VOCATIONS  OF  THE  CLASS 
Looking  over  our  roster  we  are  confronted  with  a 
plethora  of  legal  lights:  Abbott,  Gambell,  Hazen, 
Hunt,  Ide,  Lewis,  Merrill,  Otis,  Perrin,  Sargent,  Sher- 
man, Tirrell,  Wardwell,  Wing  and  Wood,  fifteen 
out  of  forty-nine. 

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The  ministry  has  engaged  nine  of  our  members: 
Bell,  Crocker,  Frary,  Johnson,  Powell,  Rodgers,  Sel- 
lew,  Smith  and  True.  Six  followed  the  profession  of 
medicine:  Hutchins,  Kingsley,  Marion,  McKowen, 
Pillsbury,  Spalding.  Five  devoted  themselves  to  teach- 
ing: Chickering,  Moore  Neal,  Norris,  Whittemore. 
Fourteen  entered  business,  generally  to  the  credit 
of  themselves  and  to  the  advantage  of  the  communi- 
ties where  they  were  located:  Andrews,  Atkinson, 
Bishop,  Campbell,  Chapman,  Chase,  Hosford,  Kelley, 
Kendall,  Kinsley  (T.  P.),  Lane,  Phetteplace,  Webster, 
Wooley. 

MORITURI   SALUTAMUS 

A  word  in  conclusion  for  those  no  longer  with  us. 
Twenty-four  of  our  number  have  been  promoted 
to  a  higher  sphere  of  existence,  many  of  them  among 
our  worthiest  and  best  beloved  members.  We  can 
never  cease  to  regard  and  regret,  among  others,  Frary, 
Lewis,  Moore,  Perrin,  Powell,  Sherman,  Tirrell,  True, 
all  of  whom,  with  many  others,  added  distinction  to 
the  class  while  living  and  do  honor  to  it  when  no 
longer  present.  Faithful  to  the  end,  after  a  longer 
or  shorter  career  of  duty  and  service  they  have  passed 
safely  and  silently  beyond  these  voices  where  is  Peace. 

VITALITY  RECORD 

The  longevity  of  the  class  has  proved  to  be  above 
the  average  of  college  classes.    Forty  per  cent  of  our 

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number  survive  the  shocks  of  time,  the  slings  and 
arrows  of  fortune,  or  the  peril  that  goes  hand-in-hand 
with  comparative  freedom  from  harassing  cares  and 
responsibilities. 

HONORS,  ETC. 

A  fair  share  of  official  cares  and  duties  has  fallen 
to  the  lot  of  the  class.  We  reckon  among  public  offi- 
cials one  minister  plenipotentiary,  one  congressman, 
five  mayors,  one  judge  of  the  superior  court,  one 
judge  of  the  police  court,  one  principal  of  a  state 
normal  school,  two  city  librarians,  besides  an  honor- 
able list  of  deserving  members  of  all  the  professions 
and  many  of  the  business  interests  of  the  country. 

OUR  ANNIVERSARY 

What  do  we  celebrate  today?  A  half  century  of 
achievement,  such  as  it  is,  built  largely  on  four  brief 
years  of  undergraduate  life  in  this  our  Alma  Mater. 
The  lengthy  cares  of  the  former  period,  its  duties, 
occupations,  distractions  —  its  pleasures,  honors,  dis- 
tinctions even  —  naturally  eclipse  the  few  short  hours 
spent  here  almost  in  our  childhood.  The  foreign 
minister,  the  congressman,  the  mayor,  the  attorney, 
the  physician,  the  teacher,  the  librarian,  the  banker, 
the  merchant,  the  manufacturer,  still  less  the  man 
of  small  and  inconspicuous  affairs,  could  not  be  ex- 
pected to  keep  vividly  in  mind  this  country  village 
and  the  vanishing  events  —  so  vital  to  us  once  —  that 

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were  transacted  here.  Yet  reminiscence,  we  take  it, 
is  the  key  to  this  occasion  and  we  do  well  to  enlarge 
our  hearts  to  its  significance.  The  current  of  our 
lives  is  to  be  discovered  mainly  in  the  stream  of  in- 
fluence imparted  here  in  our  early  and  formative 
years. 

THE  DARTMOUTH  OF  TODAY 

While  holding  the  Dartmouth  of  our  era  in  affec- 
tionate remembrance,  we  would  wrong  ourselves  and 
our  college  did  we  not  congratulate  the  splendid 
institution  that  presents  itself  to  our  delighted  in- 
spection today.  The  advance  in  equipment  and  in 
prestige  has  been  marvelous.  May  she  continue  long 
to  maintain  and  to  advance,  if  possible,  her  admitted 
rank  among  the  foremost  of  educational  institutions 
in  age  and  in  influence,  the  pride  and  boast  of  every 
lover  of  learning  throughout  our  broad  land. 

THE  OUTLOOK 

We  stand,  Classmates,  those  who  survive,  on  the 
edge  of  a  precipice.  Three  score  and  ten  years  are 
a  challenge  that  cannot  be  ignored.  The  record  is 
made  up;  there  is  little  more  to  be  said  or  done. 

Our  parting  thought,  then,  is  that  satisfaction  for 
past  effort  may  be  realized  by  all,  and  that  the  few 
years  left  us  may  still  be  brightened  by  pleasant 
recollections  and  hopeful  anticipations. 

Our  agreeable  task  is  ended.    Must  we,  in  closing, 

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say  "Farewell,"  or  may  we  venture  to  part  with  good 
heart  and  hope  to  the  more  cheerful  salutation  of 
"Auf  Wiedersehen,"  looking  forward  to  still  other 
happy  class  reunions? 


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STATISTICS 

CLASS  AND  COLLEGE 
1862-1866 


STATISTICS,  CLASS  AND  COLLEGE 

PRESIDENTS  OF   COLLEGE,   1862-1866 
Nathan    Lord,    1 828-1 863;   died    Sept.   9,    1870,    at 

Hanover,  N.  H. 

Asa   Dodge   Smith,  1863-1877;  died  Aug.   16,  1877, 

at  Hanover,  N.  H. 

PROFESSORS  AND   INSTRUCTORS,    1 862-1 866 

Charles  Augustus  Aiken,  Professor  of  Latin  Language 
and  Literature,  1859-1866;  died  Jan.  14,  1892,  at 
Princeton,  N.  J. 

Mark  Bailey,  Lecturer  of  Oratory,  1865-1876;  died 
June  3,  191 1,  at  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Samuel  Gilman  Brown,  Professor  of  Oratory  and 
Belles-Lettres,  1 840-1 863;  Professor  of  Intellectual 
Philosophy  and  Political  Economy,  1 863-1 867;  died 
Nov.  4,  1885,  at  Utica,  N.  Y. 

Henry  Fairbanks,  Professor  of  Natural  Philosophy, 
1859-1865;  Professor  of  Natural  History,  1865-1868; 
residence,  St.  Johnsbury,  Vt.  —  the  only  living  mem- 
ber (19 1 6)  of  the  college  faculty  of  our  time. 

Oliver  Payson  Hubbard,  Professor  of  Mineralogy 
and  Geology,  and  Professor  of  Chemistry  and  Phar- 
macy, 1 83  8-1 866;  died  March  9,  1900,  at  New  York 
City,  N.  Y. 

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Daniel  James  Noyes,  Professor  of  Theology,  1849- 
1869;  died  Dec.  22,  1885,  at  Chester,  N.  H. 

William  Alfred  Packard,  Professor  of  Modern  Lan- 
guages and  Literatures,  1859-1863;  Professor  of  Greek 
Language  and  Literature,  1863-1870;  died  Dec.  3, 
1909,  at  Princeton,  N.  J. 

James  Willis  Patterson,  Professor  of  Astronomy  and 
Meteorology,  1859-1865;  died  May  4,  1893,  at  Han- 
over, N.  H. 

John  Newton  Putnam,  Professor  of  Greek  Language 
and  Literature,  1849-1863;  died  at  sea,  Oct.  22,  1863. 

Elihu  T.  Quimby,  Professor  of  Mathematics  and 
Civil  Engineering,  1864-1878;  died  Feb.  26,  1890, 
at  New  York  City,  N.  Y. 

Edward  Rush  Ruggles,  Instructor  of  Modern  Lan- 
guages, 1 864-1 877;  died  Oct.  30,  1897,  at  Hanover, 
N.  H. 

Edwin  David  Sanborn,  Professor  of  Oratory  and 
Belles-Lettres,  1863-1880;  died  Dec.  29,  1885,  at  New 
York  City,  N.  Y. 

John  Riley  Varney,  Professor  of  Mathematics, 
1860-1863;  died  May  2,  1882,  at  Dover,  N.  H. 

John  Smith  Woodman,  Professor  of  Civil  Engineer- 
ing, 1865-1870;  died  May  9,  1871,  at  Durham,  N.  H. 

TUTOR 

Charles  Henry  Boyd — 1863. 


THE    CLASS    OF     1866 

MINISTER  OF   COLLEGE   CHURCH 
Samuel    Penniman    Leeds,    D.D.,    1860-1900;    died 
June  25,  1910,  at  Hanover,  N.  H. 

COLLEGE  HALLS 
Dartmouth,  Thornton,  Wentworth,  Reed 

COLLEGE   PUBLICATION 

The  JEgis 

CLASS  HONORS  AND  OFFICERS,    1866 
Valedictorian  —  Henry  Clay  Ide. 
Salutatorian  —  Henry  Wardwell. 
Class  President  —  George  Washington  Wing. 
Class  Secretaries  —  Chester  Wright  Merrill,  1 866-1906, 

and  Henry  Whittemore,  1906  to  date. 
Monitor  —  James  Powell. 

GREEK  LETTER  SOCIETIES 

ALPHA  DELTA  PHI 

George  Edward  Chickering,  Schiller  Hosford,  Edward 
Augustus  Kelley,  Eugene  Peck  Kingsley,  Chester 
Wright  Merrill,  Joseph  Perkins  Neal,  Waldemer 
Otis.  James  Alfred  Spalding,  Henry  Whittemore. 

DELTA  KAPPA  EPSILON 

Samuel  Bell,  Marshman  Williams  Hazen,  Henry  Clay 
Ide,  Henry  Appleton  Kendall,  Charles  Edward 
Lane,  George  Moore,  William  Burton  Perrin,  Henry 

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Smith  Phetteplace,  James  Powell,  Henry  Stoddard 
Sherman. 

KAPPA  KAPPA  KAPPA 
Horace  Eaton  Andrews,  Samuel  Peabody  Atkinson, 
James  Henry  Chapman,  Lucien  Haskell  Frary, 
Nathan  Parker  Hunt,  Warren  Gookin  Hutchins, 
John  Edgar  Johnson,  George  Harlin  Pillsbury,  Levi 
Rodgers,  John  Jones  Sargent,  William  Benjamin  Tyng 
Smith,  Benjamin  Osgood  True,  Henry  Wardwell, 
George  Washington  Wing,  John  Clay  McKowen. 

PSI  UPSILON 
Alson  Bailey  Abbott,  Edward  Nelson  Bishop,  Adino 
Burton  Chase,  Francis  Wesley  Lewis,  Walter  Ashbel 
Sellew,  Charles  Quincy  Tirrell,  Lewis  Lionel  Wood. 

OUDEN 
Oren  Gambell. 

PHI  BETA  KAPPA 

Marshman  Williams  Hazen,  Henry  Clay  Ide,  Francis 
Wesley  Lewis,  Chester  Wright  Merrill,  George 
Moore,  William  Burton  Perrin,  James  Powell,  Levi 
Rodgers,  Walter  Ashbel  Sellew,  Henry  Stoddard 
Sherman,  William  Benjamin  Tyng  Smith,  Charles 
Quincy  Tirrell,  Benjamin  Osgood  True,  Henry 
Wardwell,  George  Washington  Wing. 

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NON-GRADUATES,  1866 

Joshua  Plummer  Abbott,  1862-1863,  Antioch,  Cal. 
*Lewis  Lowe  Abbott,  1862- 1863,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Frank  Kittredge  Balch,  1 863-1 864,  Hanover,  N.  H. 
*John  William  Browne,  1862-1865,  Concord,  N.  H. 

Sylvester  Benjamin  Carter,  1864- 1865. 

Edward  Spalding  Churchill,   1862-1865. 

John  James  Cilley,  s.  1 862-1 864. 
*Martin  Van  Buren  Clement,  1862-1865. 

Ezekiel  Hanson  Cook,  1 864-1 865. 

Thomas  Graham  Dorsey,  1 862-1 863,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
*William    Bixby    Fisher,    1863-1865,    Boston,    Mass., 

died  June  21,  1911. 
*James   Smith  Garland,    1862- 1864,   Concord,   Mass., 

died  Sept.  1,  191 3. 
*Harvey  D.  Hadlock,  s.  1862-1863,  Boston,  Mass. 

Harrison  Hume,  s.  honorary,  1888,  Boston,  Mass. 
*Buel  Smith  May,  s.  1 863-1 864. 
*Silas  Gridley  May,  s.  1862-1865. 

Eugene  Forrest  McQuesten,  s.  1 863-1 864. 
*Charles  James  Milliken,  s.  1863-1864. 

Edward  Wright  Pierce,  1862- 1864. 
*Theodore  Parker  Robinson,  s.  1 863-1 865,  Lexington, 
Mass. 

Leverett  Winslow  Spofford,  1 863-1 864. 

George  Dallas  Stackpole,  1862- 1864,  Hill,  N.  H. 

Abraham  Bean  Tallant,  s.  1 862-1 863,  Concord,  N.  H. 

Wilbur  Fiske  Whitney,  1862-1863,  Boston,  Mass. 

Edwin  Henry  Wilson,  1862- 1863,  Keene,  N.  H. 

*Deceased.  T ,_ 


DARTMOUTH    COLLEGE 

NECROLOGY,  1866 

George  Moore,  May  5,  1867. 
John  Jones  Sargent,  March  3,  1870. 
Warren  Gookin  Hutchins,  May,  1875. 
Edward  Augustus  Kelley,  July  16,  1877. 
James  Powell,  Dec.  27,  1887. 
Edward  Nelson  Bishop,  Nov.  23,  1889. 
Adino  Burton  Chase,  Dec.  14,  1889. 
Joseph  Perkins  Neal,  May  9,  1891. 
Henry  Stoddard  Sherman,  Feb.  24,  1893. 
Alson  Bailey  Abbott,  Aug.  27,  1894. 
Oren  Gambell,  Dec.  22,  1894. 
Benjamin  Osgood  True,  July  18,  1902. 
Lucien  Haskell  Frary,  May  13,  1903. 
Samuel  Bell,  Jan.  16,  1905. 
Horace  Eaton  Andrews,  Nov.  25,  1905. 
William  Burton  Perrin,  May  10,  1907. 
Francis  Wesley  Lewis,  Oct.  8,  1909. 
Charles  Quincy  Tirrell,  July  31,  1910. 
Marshman  Williams  Hazen,  July  22,  191 1. 
Schiller  Hosford,  April  5,  191 2. 
George  Edward  Chickering,  Aug.  26,  191 3. 
Eugene  Peck  Kingsley,  May  5,  1914. 
Henry  Smith  Phetteplace,  Unknown. 
John  Clay  McKowen,  Unknown. 
Bartlett  Alexander  Campbell,  Oct.  17,  1887. 
Horace  Eugene  Marion,  Feb.  8,  1914. 
Mylon  Gustavus  Wooley,  s.  Unknown. 
Newell  Wetherbee  Crocker,  Unkn  own. 
John  Oscar  Norris,  June  14,  1905. 


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NON-GRADUATE   NOTES 

Joshua  Plummer  Abbott,  1 862-1 863,  Antioch,  Cal. 
*Lewis    Lowe   Abbott,    1 862-1 863,    A.B.    Yale,    1866, 
New  York,  N.  Y.     Business  in  New  York  and  in 
England. 
*Harvey  D.  Hadlock,  s.  1 862-1 863.    Noted  admiralty 

lawyer,  Boston  and  vicinity. 
♦Charles  James  Milliken,  s.  1 863-1 864.    Leading  phy- 
sician in  eastern  Maine. 
*Silas   Gridley   May,    s.    1862-1865.     Died   March    2, 
1886. 
Wilbur    Fiske    Whitney,    1 862-1 863.    A.B.    Harvard, 
1871.  M.D.  1875,  Boston,  Mass. 
♦William    Bixby    Fisher,    born    at    Henniker,    N.    H. 
Dartmouth,  1863-1865.     In  R.R.  business  in  Boston 
and  New  Bedford.     Died  June  21,  191 1. 
George    Dallas    Stackpole.    Dartmouth,     1 862-1 864. 

Residence  for  many  years  at  Hill,  N.  H. 
Thomas    Graham   Dorsey,    1 862-1 863.     Attorney    in 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 


*Deceased. 

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"LIT ERA  SCRIPT  A  MANET" 


CLASS  RECORDS 

ALSON  BAILEY  ABBOTT 

Alson  Bailey  Abbott,  born  at  Greenfield,  N.  H., 
Nov.  3,  1844;  fitted  for  college  at  Phillips  Academy, 
Andover,  Mass.,  and  entered  Dartmouth  in  1862. 
The  following  summer  he  served  three  months  in  the 
5th  Massachusetts  Volunteer  Infantry,  but  returned 
to  college  and  graduated  with  his  class  in  1866. 

After  graduation  he  became  principal  of  Warrens- 
burg  Academy,  N.  Y.,  remaining  in  that  position 
until  1868,  when  he  assumed  the  principalship  of  the 
Glens  Falls  Academy,  which  he  filled  with  ability  the 
four  succeeding  years.  He  then  read  law  in  the  office 
of  Judge  Brown,  attended  the  Albany  Law  School 
and  became  a  member  of  the  bar  in  1872.  He  served 
in  the  legislature  of  1878  as  assemblyman  from  Warren 
County.  From  1881  to  1884  he  was  president  of  the 
Warren  County  Agricultural  Society  and  for  a  long 
time  was  secretary-treasurer  of  the  Glens  Falls  Park 
Association.  He  was  also  a  director  of  the  Glens 
Falls  Insurance  Company,  of  the  First  National 
Bank,  and  president  of  the  Canton  (Ohio)  Bridge 
Company. 

Mr.  Abbott  was  married  in  1874  to  Mrs.  Sarah 
Morgan    Reynolds,    widow   of    Dr.    J.    H.    Reynolds 

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and  daughter  of  James  Morgan.  Besides  his  widow 
he  is  survived  by  his  son,  Alson  Morgan  Abbott,  a 
broker  in  Plainfield,  N.  J.  Mr.  Abbott  died  in  Glens 
Falls,  Aug.  27,  1894,  aged  fifty  years. 

"As  a  citizen  Mr.  Abbott  took  a  lively  interest  in 
everything  that  tended  to  the  moral  and  material 
upbuilding  of  the  community  in  which  he  lived.  He 
was  an  earnest  member  and  able  officer  of  the  Presby- 
terian church.  He  also  took  an  active  part  in  the 
affairs  of  the  Crandall  Free  Library,  of  which  he  was 
a  trustee.  A  scholar,  a  thinker,  a  loving  husband  and 
father,  and  a  kind  friend,  he  will  be  missed  in  the 
circles  which  his  presence  brightened  and  adorned. " 

HORACE  EATON  ANDREWS 
Horace   Eaton  Andrews,   born  April    12,    1844,    at 
Sutton,  N.  H.,  seventh  son  of  Nathan,  Jr.,  and  Dolly 
Sargent   Pillsbury  Andrews. 

Mr.  Andrews  fitted  for  college  at  Manchester  and 
at  New  London  Academy.  He  had  taught  while  in 
college,  and  on  graduating  became  the  principal  of 
the  high  school  at  Memphis,  Tenn.,  and  later  was 
superintendent  of  the  public  schools  at  Shelby,  Tenn. 
He  was  United  States  deputy-marshal,  and  then  for 
many  years  the  clerk  of  the  United  States  Circuit 
and  District  Court  for  the  western  districts  of  Ten- 
nessee. Retiring  from  official  position  in  1886,  he 
devoted  himself  to  his  large  landed  interests,  especially 

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to  his  cotton  plantation  on  Dean's  Island,  one  of  the 
best  on  the  Mississippi  River.  He  died  at  Memphis, 
Tenn.,  on  Nov.  25,  1895. 

Mr.  Andrews  was  of  genial,  companionable  nature, 
and  his  decease  was  much  regretted  by  the  legal 
fraternity  and  by  the  general  public,  with  whom  he 
was  decidedly  a  social  favorite. 

SAMUEL  PEABODY  ATKINSON 

Samuel  Peabody  Atkinson,  born  Nov.  26,  1844,  at 
Pataskala,  Ohio.  After  graduation  he  was  a  farmer 
and  teacher  in  Ohio  until  1868,  when  he  removed  to 
Illinois,  teaching  and  farming  until  1870,  when  he 
married.  In  1880  he  removed  to  Champaign,  111., 
where  he  entered  the  monument  business,  in  which 
he  has  continued  to  date,  energetically  and  success- 
fully. 

His  wife  dying  in  1893,  he  married  again  the  follow- 
ing year.  He  has  two  sons.  Besides  being  a  model  of 
domestic  felicity  in  all  its  relations,  he  has  been  much 
employed  in  public  affairs.  He  is  a  Mason,  a  Knight 
of  Pythias,  an  Elk,  a  Grand  Army  man,  a  member 
of  the  Country  Club,  a  director  of  Building  and  Loan 
Association,  president  of  the  Champaign  School  Board, 
member  of  the  Fire  and  Police  Commission,  and 
has  in  every  relation  the  reputation  of  a  sound  busi- 
ness man  and  a  faithful  public  official. 

His  address  is  Champaign,  111. 

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SAMUEL  BELL 

Samuel  Bell,  born  Oct.  20,  1839,  at  St.  John,  N.  B. 
Graduated  from  Andover  Theological  Seminary  in 
1869.  He  has  held  pastorates  in  Cambridge,  Attle- 
boro,  Saxonville  and  Whitman  in  Massachusetts,  and 
in  Somersworth  and  Pittsfield,  N.  H.  He  married 
Mary  E.  Loud  of  Boston  in  1869. 

Mr.  Bell  was  the  author  of  one  novel  and  a  number 
of  short  stories.  He  lectured  considerably,  many  of 
his  addresses  being  of  a  secular  and  popular  nature. 

His  wife  dying,  he  was  married  a  second  time, 
date  unknown. 

He  died  at  his  farm  in  Marshfield,  Mass.,  Jan.  16, 
190S. 

EDWARD  NELSON  BISHOP 

Edward  Nelson  Bishop,  born  Nov.  1,  1847,  at 
Windsor,  Vt.  After  graduation  he  began  a  business 
career,  traveling  extensively,  chiefly  in  the  West. 
He  was  engaged,  at  the  time  of  his  death,  in  the  ad- 
vertising business  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  where  he  died  of 
tuberculosis,  unmarried,  Nov.  23,   1889. 

BARTLETT  ALEXANDER   CAMPBELL 

Bartlett  Alexander  Campbell  was  born  July  31, 
1843,  at  Cherryfield,  Me.  After  graduation  he  was  in 
business  in  Boston  with  Howard  Spurr  &  Co.,  whole- 
sale grocers,  until,  his  health  failing,  he  returned  to 
Cherryfield,    where    he    was    engaged    in    mercantile 

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business  until  some  four  years  previous  to  his  death 
on  Oct.  17,  1887.  He  was  the  victim  of  tuberculosis, 
and  endured  with  patience  and  fortitude  a  distressing 
illness  of  long  duration,  leaving  behind  him  a  good 
record  with  all  privileged  to  have  known  him. 

JAMES  HENRY  CHAPMAN 

James  Henry  Chapman  was  born  at  Woodstock, 
Vt.,  Jan.  10,  1846.  His  parents  were  George  R.  and 
Harriet  M.  Chapman.  He  prepared  for  college  at  the 
public  school,  Woodstock,  and  was  in  attendance 
one  year  (1 860-1 861)  at  the  Vermont  Episcopal  In- 
stitute at  Rock  Point,  Burlington. 

In  the  fall  of  1866  he  began  a  business  life  in  the 
wool  room  of  one  of  Harris'  Woolen  Mills  at  Woon- 
socket,  R.  I.  Thence  he  removed  to  Trenton,  N.  J., 
where  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  American  Crockery 
Company,  remaining  there  until  1881  as  secretary 
and  salesman,  traveling  widely  throughout  this  country. 

From  1 88 1  to  1885  he  studied  singing,  having  de- 
veloped what  musical  critics  pronounced  a  most  promis- 
ing tenor  voice.  While  studying,  he  took  clerkships 
in  Philadelphia  and  Chicago,  finally  concluding  that 
business  life  was  more  congenial  and  profitable.  In 
1885  he  entered  the  western  mortgage  business,  repre- 
senting in  the  East  various  companies  for  about  five 
years.  Early  in  1891  he  became  representative  of 
Harvey  Fisk   &  Sons,  bankers    and  bond   dealers  in 

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New  York  City,  traveling  for  them  through  the  large 
cities  of  New  England,  New  York  and  Pennsylvania. 
In  1892  he  opened  an  office  in  Philadelphia  as  their 
representative,  where  he  remained  until  July,  1915, 
and  was  then  transferred  to  the  New  York  office, 
62  Cedar  Street,  where  he  is  now  making  his  business 
headquarters,  working  in  the  same  territory  as  before, 
actively  as  ever. 

He  married  Isabel,  daughter  of  Dr.  and  Mrs.  E.  M. 
Howard  of  Camden,  N.  J.  His  children  are  Catherine, 
born  Jan.  16,  1901;  Isabel  Howard,  born  Dec.  6,  1903; 
and  James  Henry  Chapman,  Jr.,  born  March  12,  1905. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  following  clubs:  The  Union 
League  of  Philadelphia,  the  Lakota  and  Woodstock 
Country  Clubs  of  Woodstock,  Vt. 

His  residence  is  122  South  17th  Street,  Philadelphia, 
and  he  has  a  summer  home  at  South  Barnard,  Vt., 
eight  and  one-half  miles  from  Woodstock. 

ADINO  BURTON  CHASE 

Adino  Burton  Chase  was  born  June  7,  1843,  at 
Lyme,  N.  H.  After  graduation  he  went  to  Cincinnati, 
O.,  making  that  city  his  home  for  several  years. 
Here  he  held  the  position  of  assistant  superintendent 
of  the  House  of  Refuge.  After  a  time  he  removed  to 
Kankakee,  111.,  and  embarked  in  the  grain  business, 
owning  one  of  the  largest  elevators  on  the  Illinois 
Central  R.R.,   in  which  enterprise  he  was  very  suc- 

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cessful.  He  held  numerous  county  and  city  offices, 
and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was  chairman  of  the 
Republican  Central  Committee  of  Kankakee  County. 
He  was  a  prominent  Mason  and  a  member  of  other 
orders. 

Mr.  Chase  was  married  in  1876  to  Miss  Florence 
Wilhoite  of  Crawfordsville,  Ind.  Here  he  died  Dec. 
11,  1889.  He  was  deeply  interested  in  educational 
work,  having  served  as  trustee  of  Kankakee  city 
schools  for  many  years. 

GEORGE  EDWARD  CHICKERING 

George  Edward  Chickering  was  born  June  29,  1843, 
at  Andover,  Mass.  Married  Harriet  Barnes  of  Man- 
chester, N.  H.  His  children  are  Mrs.  Elizabeth  C. 
Fitch  of  Newton  Centre,  Mass.;  George  W.  Chicker- 
ing of  Arlington  Heights,  Mass.,  whose  office  is  at  6 
Beacon  Street,  Boston,  Mass.  He  was  married  a 
second  time  on  Nov.  5,  1908,  to  Miss  Ida  M.  Zwicker 
of  Gloucester,  Mass.  There  are  no  children  by  the 
second  marriage. 

Mr.  Chickering  engaged  in  teaching  at  Manchester 
for  several  years  after  graduation,  thence  removing 
to  Lawrence,  Mass.,  where  he  was  in  the  drug  business 
on  Essex  Street  for  many  years.  He  was  superin- 
tendent of  schools  in  Lawrence  for  twenty  years, 
retiring  from  business  nearly  eight  years  before  his 
death,  which  occurred  on  Aug.  26,  1913. 

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He  was  an  influential  and  public-spirited  citizen, 
held  in  high  esteem  by  the  community  in  which  he 
lived. 

NEWELL  WETHERBEE   CROCKER 

Newell  Wetherbee  Crocker,  s.  minister;  residence, 
Amador  City,  Cal. 

We  have  not  succeeded  in  obtaining  information 
from  Mr.  Crocker  and  must,  therefore,  content  our- 
selves with  the  meagre  record  of  the  General  Catalogue. 
It  is  practically  certain  that  Mr.  Crocker  is  no  longer 
living. 

LUCIEN  HASKELL   FRARY 

Lucien  Haskell  Frary  was  born  March  19,  1839, 
at  Haverhill,  N.  H.  He  was  graduated  from  Andover 
Seminary  in  1869.  He  received  the  degree  of  D.D. 
from  Dartmouth  in  1899.  He  was  pastor  at  Middle- 
ton,  Mass.,  1869-1875;  Union  Church,  Weymouth 
and  Braintree,  1 875-1 876;  Sierra  Madre,  Cal,  1887- 
1888;  Pomona,  Cal.,  1888-1902. 

He  was  corporate  member  of  A.B.C.F.M.,  and 
trustee  of  Pomona  College,  1 892-1 893. 

He  married  for  his  first  wife,  Susan  E.  True,  of 
Meriden,  N.  H.,  on  Nov.  30,  1869.  She  died  Dec.  14, 
1872,  at  Middleton,  Mass.  On  May  12,  1874,  ne 
married  Louise  Parker  at  Dunbarton,  N.  H.  One 
child,  Margaret  Parker,  born  Sept.  16,  1875,  died  Dec. 
22,  1887. 

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Dr.  Frary  proved  himself  a  model  pastor  in  every 
relation,  and  was  the  subject  of  well-deserved  eulogy 
at  the  time  of  his  decease,  by  Rev.  E.  E.  P.  Abbott, 
Class  of  1863,  Dartmouth  College. 

Dr.  Frary  died  at  Long  Branch,  Cal.,  on  May  13, 
1903. 

OREN  GAMBELL 

Oren  Gambell  was  born  May  23,  1844,  at  Barnard, 
Vt.  He  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  at  the  Albany 
Law  School  in  1869.  Practised  law  in  Albany  and 
vicinity  with  good  success  until  his  death  on  Dec. 
22,  1894. 

Mr.  Gambell  was  of  peculiarly  independent  and 
uncommunicative  disposition  in  college,  and  subse- 
quently very  little  information  of  his  career  has  been 
obtained.  One  of  his  classmates  reports  very  favorably 
of  his  legal  abilities  in  a  case  that  came  under  his 
observation  some  years  before  his  death. 

JAMES   SMITH  GARLAND 

We  are  indebted  to  the  "  Dartmouth  Alumni  Maga- 
zine" for  the  following  sketch  of  the  life  and  death 
of  James  Smith  Garland: 

"We  all  remember  with  pleasure  James  Smith 
Garland,  who  was  for  two  years  a  member  of  the 
class.  Garland  died  in  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  Sept. 
1,  1913.  He  was  born  in  Franklin,  N.  H.  He  com- 
pleted  his   preparation   for   college   at   the   school   at- 

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tached  to  Washington  University,  St.  Louis,  and 
entered  Dartmouth  in  the  fall  of  1862.  He  took  up 
his  standing  at  the  end  of  the  sophomore  year  and 
entered  Harvard,  graduating  with  the  Class  of  1866. 
He  always  maintained  a  lively  interest  in  his  classmates 
of  Dartmouth  and  took  pleasure  in  being  present  at 
reunions.  His  record  at  Harvard  was  most  admirable; 
his  scholarship  was  excellent  in  all  directions.  He 
had  the  respect  of  the  best  men  of  his  class,  and  was 
a  leader  in  class  activities.  We  who  knew  him  at 
Hanover  are  not  surprised  at  these  things,  for  his  life 
there  was  a  manifestation  of  these  qualities.  At  his 
graduation  he  returned  to  St.  Louis.  He  took  up  the 
study  of  law  at  Washington  University,  which  his 
uncle,  James  Smith,  had  a  prominent  part  in  estab- 
lishing. For  years  he  engaged  in  projects,  industrial 
and  commercial,  and  he  was  conspicuous  in  organi- 
zations for  education,  for  charity,  and  for  civic  better- 
ment, combining  with  these  an  enthusiastic  and  success- 
ful pursuit  of  his  chosen  profession.  He  was  president 
of  a  savings  bank,  charter  member  of  the  University 
Club,  a  worker  in  the  Newsboys'  Home,  and  a  trustee 
of  the  Church  of  the  ^vlessiah.  He  became  a  con- 
noisseur of  painting,  sculpture,  and  architecture.  He 
was  associated  with  William  T.  Harris  and  the  group 
of  men  whose  organ  was  the  Journal  of  Speculative 
Philosophy.  In  the  midst  of  these  activities  he  fell 
ill,   and  was  incapacitated  ior  work  for  some  years. 

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During  his  convalescence  he  spent  some  time  in 
Europe.  When  he  was  able  to  take  up  work  again, 
he  left  St.  Louis  and  went  to  Concord,  Mass.,  where 
he  established  the  Concord  Home  School,  which 
achieved  a  wide  distinction.  He  lived  in  Concord  a 
number  of  years,  teaching  in  his  school  and  engaged 
in  literary  work.  When  he  relinquished  this  work 
he  went  to  Minneapolis,  where  he  had  a  daughter 
living.  Mr.  Garland  married  in  1869  Miss  Katherine 
A.  Howard  of  Watertown,  Mass.  He  is  survived  by 
Mrs.  Garland  and  three  children,  —  William  H.  Gar- 
land, assistant  attorney  of  the  United  States  at  Bos- 
ton; Mrs.  Percival  M.  Vilas,  and  Miss  Louise  Garland 
of  Minneapolis.  A  fourth  child,  a  son,  died  on  the 
threshold  of  a  promising  career.  A  friend  has  written 
of  him:  'Garland's  talents  were  brilliant,  and  most 
versatile  in  their  range.  In  social  intercourse  he  was 
very  attractive,  winning  easily  the  friendship  of  the 
best.  Though  he  fairly  accomplished  his  three  score 
and  ten,  his  death  seems  premature.' " 

HARRISON  HUME 
Insurance:  born  at  Calai*  Me.,  Sept.  12,  1840; 
son  of  John  and  Lucy  (Brooks)  Hume;  descendant  of 
David  Hume,  Scotch  historian;  on  mother's  side,  of 
Brooks  family,  Woburn,  Mass.;  educated  at  Dart- 
mouth College  (hon.  M>S.  1888);  LL.B.,  University 
of  Michigan,   Department  of  Law,    1867;  unmarried. 

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Enlisted  in  the  Civil  War  with  the  nth  Maine  Volun- 
teer Infantry;  was  sergeant-major,  then  second  lieu- 
tenant of  Co.  I,  1861-62;  promoted  adjutant  on  the 
battlefield  of  Fair  Oaks  "for  gallant  and  meritorious 
conduct,"  May  31,  1862;  discharged  on  account  of 
disability,  September,  1862.  Member  of  the  Maine 
House  of  Representatives,  1870-71;  deputy-collector  of 
the  Port  of  Cherryfield,  Me.,  1871-75;  colonel  on  the 
staff  of  Gov.  Nelson  Dingley,  1875;  superintendent  of 
public  schools,  Lawrence,  Mass.,  1877-79;  New  Eng- 
land manager  of  Iveson,  Blakeman,  Taylor  Co.,  book 
publishers,  1879-91;  and  for  successors,  American  Book 
Co.,  1891-93;  member  of  the  Maine  State  Senate  from 
Washington  County,  1895-96.  Engaged  in  surety  bond 
business,  Boston,  1 898-1910;  now  practically  retired 
except  for  retained  interest  in  the  United  States  Fidelity 
&  Guaranty  Co.,  of  Baltimore.  Republican;  Unitarian; 
member  of  Gettysburg  Post  No.  191,  G.  A.  R.  (Past 
Commander).  Clubs:  Algonquin,  Pine-Tree  State  (ex- 
president),  president  of  the  New  England  Society 
for  three  years.  Recreation: Traveling.  Home:  Beacon 
Chambers.    Office:  84  State  Street,  Boston,  Mass. 

[Mr.  Hume,  besides  being  a  social  magnet  in  all  circles,  has 
a  well-earned  distinction  as  political  orator  and  campaigner. 
The  old  veteran,  being  pushed  forward  at  our  reunion  to  address 
large  bands  of  returning  graduates  marching  to  music  up  and 
down  the  campus,  acquitted  himself  to  admiration.  Dartmouth 
can  boast  no  more  ready  and  effective  extempore  orator.] 


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MARSHMAN  WILLIAMS   HAZEN 

Marshman  Williams  Hazen  was  born  July  28,  1840, 
at  Beverly,  Mass.  For  some  time  after  graduation  he 
was  principal  of  the  Pinkerton  Academy  at  Derry, 
N.  H.,  and  later  was  principal  of  the  high  school  at 
Arlington,  Mass.,  succeeding  our  classmate,  Ide,  as 
principal  of  the  same  school.  Later,  in  the  early  70's 
he  represented  Ginn  &  Heath  (now  Ginn  &  Co.),  of 
Boston,  publishers  of  textbooks,  in  Chicago.  He 
continued  to  represent  this  firm  in  Chicago  until  late 
in  the  70's.  He,  with  Lane,  Chase,  and  Powell  of 
'66,  and  others,  organized  in  1876  the  Dartmouth 
Alumni  Association  of  Chicago,  of  whom  those  named 
were  charter  members.  After  leaving  Chicago,  about 
1880,  he  went  to  Boston  and  became  the  New  Eng- 
land representative  of  the  educational  publications  of 
D.  Appleton  &  Co.  Late  in  the  8o's  he  left  this  em- 
ployment, studied  law  and  entered  on  practice  in  New 
York  City.  He  was  also  engaged  in  the  publication, 
on  his  own  account,  of  elementary  school  books, 
chiefly  a  series  of  readers  and  spellers. 

His  death  occurred  in  New  York  on  July  22,  191 1. 
Mr.  Hazen,  by  practical  economy  and  good  manage- 
ment, accumulated  a  considerable  fortune,  to  which 
his  natural  optimism  and  genial  approachability 
largely  contributed.  With  imagination  plus,  and  not 
overweighted  with  domestic  or  business  responsi- 
bilities, he  maintained  a  life  of  comparative  freedom, 

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made   many   friends    and   enjoyed    a   good    degree   of 
social,  literary  and  professional  success. 

SCHILLER  HOSFORD 

Schiller  Hosford  was  born  Feb.  I,  1846,  at  Orford, 
N.  H.,  being  the  only  son  of  Dr.  Willard  and  Mrs. 
Harriet  Hosford.  For  a  short  time  after  graduation 
he  was  engaged  in  business  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  and 
in  Chicago,  111.  Later  he  became  interested  in  the 
lumber  business  and  removed  to  Clinton,  la.,  where 
he  married  Floy  Mabel  Chapman,  a  granddaughter 
of  John  Deere,  inventor  of  the  steel  plow  bearing  his 
name,  manufactured  at  Moline,  111.,  with  branches 
all  over  the  country.  Mr.  Hosford  settled  in  Moline, 
being  connected  with  Deere  &  Co.,  as  secretary  and 
treasurer  of  the  company. 

At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  absent  from  home 
in  search  of  health,  dying  April  5,  191 2,  at  the  home 
of  a  friend  in  New  York  City.  He  was  always  an 
active  citizen,  engaged  in  every  good  work  for  the 
benefit  of  his  adopted  city,  and  was  held  in  the  highest 
esteem  by  his  associates  in  business  and  in  church 
affairs,  as  well  as  in  civic  and  social  duties.  We  quote 
from  one  of  the  many  tributes  paid  him  at  the  time 
of  his  death. 

"The  passing  of  Schiller  Hosford,  treasurer  of 
Deere  &  Co.,  brings  sadness  and  regret  to  every  one 
in  Moline  who  knew  that  prince  of  gentlemen,  who 

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was  yet  so  open,  so  cosmopolitan,  and  so  human 
that  each  one  regarded  him  as  a  personal  friend. 
He  will  be  sadly  missed  and  generally  mourned  by  the 
whole  city." 

Mr.  Hosford  is  survived  by  his  two  sons:  Willard 
Deere,  born  June  13,  1882,  a  graduate  of  Yale  1906, 
and  now  treasurer  and  assistant  manager  of  the  John 
Deere  Plow  Co.,  of  Omaha,  Neb.;  and  Richard  Schiller, 
born  Feb.  9,  1885,  a  graduate  of  Yale  1909,  and  now 
general  office  manager  of  Deere  &  Co.,  in  Moline,  111. 

NATHAN  PARKER  HUNT 
Nathan  Parker  Hunt,  eldest  son  of  Jonathan  T.  P. 
and  Irene  (Drew)  Hunt,  was  born  at  Manchester, 
N.  H.,  July  5,  1844.  He  graduated  from  the  Man- 
chester High  School  in  1862.  During  his  college 
course  he  taught  school  in  the  winter  months  at  Bed- 
ford and  New  Boston,  N.  H.,  and  subsequently  at 
Gloucester,  Mass.  He  was  one  of  the  editors  of  the 
JEgis  during  the  summer  of  1864. 

In  July,  1866,  he  entered  the  law  office  of  Hon. 
Samuel  N.  Bell  of  Manchester  and  was  admitted  to 
the  Bar  in  May,  1869.  From  1870  to  1871  he  was  city 
solicitor  of  Manchester;  treasurer  of  Hillsborough 
County  in  1871-72-73;  trustee  of  the  Manchester  City 
Library  in  1873  and  treasurer  of  the  Board  and  manag- 
ing trustee  from  1 879-1906.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Manchester  School  Committee  in  1873-74,  J 877-78,  and 

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again  in  1883-90.  Was  a  member  of  the  N.  H.  Legis- 
lature in  1876;  justice  of  the  Manchester  Police  Court 
from  July,  1876,  to  May,  1895;  commissioner  to  com- 
pile the  school  laws  of  N.  H.,  1885;  member  of  the  Con- 
stitutional Convention,  N.  H.,  1903.  From  Oct.  29, 
1896,  to  June,  1907,  he  was  a  member  of  the  Board  of 
Trustees  of  the  N.  H.  State  Industrial  School,  the  last 
two  years  being  president  of  the  Board.  In  June,  1874, 
he  was  a  member  of  the  N.  H.  Fire  Insurance  Co., 
serving  as  clerk,  attorney,  director,  vice-president  and 
treasurer;  at  present  a  member  of  Board  of  Directors, 
Finance  Committee,  clerk  and  treasurer.  In  1879  he 
became  director  and  attorney  of  the  Merchants  Na- 
tional Bank,  Manchester,  N.  H.,  and  president  in  1895, 
which  position  he  now  holds.  In  1891  became  director 
of  the  Manchester  Gas-Light  Co.  and  is  now  holding 
this  position.  He  was  clerk  and  attorney  of  Man- 
chester &  North  Weare  R.R.  from  1883  until  the 
consolidation  of  the  road  with  the  Concord  &  Mont- 
real R.R.  He  was  clerk  and  director  of  the  Boston, 
Concord  &  Montreal  R.R.  from  1889  until  its  con- 
solidation with  the  Concord  &  Montreal  R.R.;  clerk 
and  attorney  of  the  Suncook  Valley  R.R.  from  1892 
to  the  present  time;  director  of  the  Pemigewasset 
Valley  R.R.  He  has  been  treasurer  of  the  Hills- 
borough County  Savings  Bank  since  1889.  Was 
admitted  to  Odd  Fellowship  in  1866;  was  Noble  Grand 
of  the  Lodge  in  1873;  Chief  Patriarch  of  the  Encamp- 

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merit  later.  He  became  a  Mason  in  1867,  High 
Priest  of  the  Chapter  in  1883-84;  Grand  High  Priest 
of  Grand  Chapter  of  N.  H.  in  1889-90;  Illustrious 
Master  of  Grand  Council  of  N.  H.  in  1905;  Eminent 
Commander  of  Commandery  in  1876  and  Right 
Eminent  Commander  of  Grand  Commandery  of  N.  H. 
in  1 881;  in  Gilead  Lodge  of  N.  H.  at  different  periods, 
serving  as  chairman  of  committee  on  correspondence, 
jurisprudence,  trials,  and  appeals;  elected  life  member 
in  1875;  received  Scottish  rite  degree  in  1885  and 
honorary  thirty-third  degree  in  the  Supreme  Council, 
Sept.  20,  1892.  Is  a  member  of  the  Manchester  His- 
torical Society  and  the  N.  H.  Historical  Society. 

Mr.  Hunt  married  Elizabeth  S.  Bisbee  of  Newport, 
Vt.,  on  Nov.  22,  1870.  He  has  three  children:  (1) 
Samuel  Parker  Hunt,  Manchester  High  School  1889; 
Dartmouth  1893;  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Tech- 
nology (two  years'  course),  graduating  in  two  courses, 
electrical  engineering  and  chemical  engineering,  in 
1895;  married  in  1907  Lucy  Agnes  Lowell  of  New 
York  City.  He  has  no  children.  Is  now  assistant 
general  manager  of  the  Manchester  Traction,  Light 
and  Power  Co.  (2)  Sarah  Hunt,  Manchester  High 
School  1 891;  Smith  College  1895;  teacher  in  the 
Manchester  High  several  years;  married  in  1905 
to  Albert  L.  Clough  and  has  three  daughters.  (3) 
Agnes  Hunt,  Manchester  High  1893;  Smith  College 
1897;  took  a  three  years'  course  at  Yale  University, 

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where  she  obtained  the  degree  of  Ph.D.  in  1901;  was 

instructor    in    modern    history    at    Western    Reserve 

College,    Cleveland,    O.,    and  Wells    College,    Aurora, 

N.  Y.   She  is  now  professor  of  history  at  Smith  College. 

[We  submit,  with  due  apologies  to  Brother  Hunt's  modesty, 
that  it  would  be  hard  to  find  a  more  useful  or  serviceable  citizen.] 

WARREN  GOOKIN  HUTCHINS 
Warren  Gookin  Hutchins  was  born  Dec.  4,  1845, 
at  Bath,  N.  H.  He  received  the  degree  of  M.D.  from 
Dartmouth  Medical  College  in  1870.  After  a  short 
period  of  medical  practice,  he  died  May,  1875,  at 
Riverside,  Cal.  His  remains  were  brought  home  for 
burial  and  with  other  members  of  his  family,  one  at 
least  a  graduate  of  Dartmouth,  he  lies  buried  in  the 
cemetery  of  his  native  town. 

His  practice  was  for  a  while  in  the  eastern  part 
of  the  country,  for  a  time  at  Washington,  D.  C,  but, 
becoming  a  victim  of  tuberculosis,  he  removed  to 
California  in  search  of  health,  without  avail,  as  recorded 
above. 

Owing  to  the  length  of  time  elapsed,  and  his  early 
decease,  it  has  proved  impossible  to  get  further  partic- 
ulars of  his  career,  personal  or  professional. 

HENRY   CLAY  IDE 
Henry  Clay  Ide  was  born  at  Barnet,  Vt.,  Sept.  18, 
1844,   and  married  Mary  M.   Melcher  of  Stoughton, 
Mass.,    on    Oct.    26,    1871.    She    died    on    April    13, 

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1892.  Mrs.  Ide  was  a  woman  of  great  beauty  and 
rare  accomplishments,  and  was  beloved  and  admired 
by  all  who  knew  her.  The  children  of  this  union 
were  these:  Adelaide  M.,  born  Dec.  26,  1872,  who 
died  Feb.  19,  1898;  Harry  J.,  born  July  1,  1875,  wno 
died  Dec.  17,  1879;  Annie  H.,  born  Dec.  25,  1876,  mar- 
ried Nov.  15,  1906,  to  Hon.  W.  Bourke  Cockran,  long 
a  member  of  Congress  and  a  distinguished  orator,  re- 
siding at  Port  Washington,  N.  Y.;  Marjorie  M.,  born 
Nov.  30,  1880,  married  June  11,  1912,  to  John  Ran- 
dolph Leslie,  otherwise  called  Shane  Leslie,  of  London, 
England,  son  of  Sir  John  Leslie  of  Glasslough,  Ireland, 
and  nephew  of  Lord  Randolph  Churchill,  for  whom  he 
was  named.  Of  the  last  named  marriage  one  grand- 
child is  living,  Anne  Theodosia  Leslie,  born  Nov. 
21,  1914. 

Immediately  after  graduation  Mr.  Ide  was  principal 
of  St.  Johnsbury  Academy  from  1866  to  1868,  after 
which  he  was  for  one  year  principal  of  the  Cotting 
High  School  at  Arlington,  Mass.,  in  which  position 
he  was  succeeded  by  our  classmate,  M.  W.  Hazen. 

He  studied  law  at  St.  Johnsbury  with  Judge  Jona- 
than H.  Ross  and  Judge  Benjamin  H.  Steele,  and  was 
admitted  to  the  Bar  of  Vermont  in  187 1,  and  subse- 
quently to  that  of  the  United  States  District  and 
Circuit  Courts  and  the  United  States  Supreme  Court. 
He  practised  his  profession  in  the  courts  of  his  own  and 
adjoining  states  and  federal  courts  until  taken  away 

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from  the  country  by  public  duties.  His  practice  was 
large  and  general,  covering  a  wide  extent  of  territory, 
and  extending  into  other  jurisdictions  than  those  of 
his  own  state. 

He  was  state's  attorney  in  the  years  1876  and  1877. 
and  was  state  senator  in  the  years  1882  to  1886, 
where  he  was  chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Judiciary,' 
as  well  as  of  that  on  Railroads,  and  was  instrumental 
in  procuring  the  enactment  of  important  constructive 
legislation. 

In  the  year  1884  he  was  president  of  the  Vermont 
Republican  State  Convention,  and  as  such  was  called 
upon  to  make  the  first  Blaine  speech  of  the  Republican 
presidential  campaign  for  that  year. 

He  was  delegate  to  the  Republican  National  Con- 
vention at  Chicago  in  1888,  where  the  Vermont  delega- 
tion was  the  only  one  that  voted  unanimously  upon 
every  ballot  for  the  nomination  of  Benjamin  Har- 
rison as  President. 

In  1 89 1  he  was  appointed  by  President  Harrison 
as  the  United  States  member  of  the  International 
Samoan  Commission,  consisting  of  one  representa- 
tive each  from  the  United  States,  from  Germany 
and  from  England,  and  was  made  chairman  of  the 
Commission,  where  he  was  largely  instrumental  in 
organizing  its  work  and  formulating  its  procedure. 
Upon  his  resignation  on  account  of  the  illness  of  his 
wife,   he   received   a  personal   letter  of  thanks   from 

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President  Harrison  for  his  important  work,  and  a 
letter  of  congratulation  for  his  success  in  a  difficult 
field,  written  by  Robert  Louis  Stevenson,  the  dis- 
tinguished author,  who  then  resided  in  Samoa.  Mr. 
Stevenson  likewise  near  that  time  executed  a  will, 
donating  his  birthday,  the  13th  day  of  November,  to 
Mr.  Ide's  daughter  Annie,  who  had  the  misfortune  to  be 
born  on  Christmas  Day,  and  thereby  had  been  de- 
prived of  receiving  gifts  customary  both  on  birth- 
days and  Christmas.  That  will  is  published  among 
Stevenson's  works. 

In  1903  Mr.  Ide  was  made  Chief  Justice  of  Samoa 
by  agreement  between  England,  Germany  and  the 
United  States,  the  three  powers  constituting  the 
Protectorate,  performing  the  duties  of  that  office 
until  1897,  when  he  resigned. 

At  the  close  of  his  service  in  Samoa  he  received  a 
letter  of  appreciation  from  the  Marquis  of  Salisbury, 
then  Premier  of  England. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  government  of  Samoa,  held 
as  a  farewell  to  Mr.  Ide,  King  Malietoa  said,  among 
other  things:  "We  think  that  we  shall  never  see  you 
again,  and  our  hearts  are  heavy.  We  know  that  our 
true  friend  is  going  far  away.  You  have  been  good  to 
us  all.  We  Samoans  know  that  you  have  been  our 
strength  and  our  rock,  and  that  you  have  protected 
the  weak  against  the  strong.  This  is  not  merely  what 
I,  the  King,  and  the  chiefs  here  say,  but  these   are 

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the  words  that  come  from  the  mouths  of  the  common 
people  all  over  Samoa.  You  go  away,  but  yet  you 
do  not  go  away.  You  remain  in  our  hearts.  You  will 
not  be  forgotten  in  Samoa.  You  will  be  remembered 
as  the  good  Chief  Justice  who  knew  our  ways  and 
laws  and  customs,  and  was  kind  and  just  to  us.  May 
God  go  with  you  in  your  journey  and  keep  you  long 
in  life." 

The  "Samoan  Herald"  of  May  18,  1897,  in  a  long 
editorial  states,  among  other  things,  that  "Mr.  Ide 
has  fully  come  up  to  the  high  standard  of  excellence 
set  by  the  framers  of  the  Berlin  Treaty.  The  judicial 
administration  of  Mr.  Ide  has  been  an  unqualified 
success.  It  has  been  tested  and  tried  in  every  possible 
way  and,  though  keen  eyes  have  been  ever  on  the 
watch,  none  have  been  able  to  find  it  wanting.  He 
has  had  practically  to  create  as  well  as  control  the 
legal  system  of  which  he  is  the  head.  Over  fifteen  hun- 
dred appeals,  to  say  nothing  of  uncontested  cases,  have 
been  dealt  with  by  him,  and  over  seven  hundred  thou- 
sand acres  of  land  have  been  restored  to  their  rightful 
native  owners.  The  native  government  has  done  the 
Chief  Justice  the  honor  of  accepting  his  advice  in  every 
instance.  He  leaves  a  record  behind  him  of  which  any 
man  might  well  be  proud.  He  leaves  Samoa  with  a  clean 
record  as  a  just  and  able  judge.  Few  of  his  decisions 
have  been  questioned,  and  the  volume  of  work  which 
he  has  managed  to  put  through  is  scarcely  likely  to 

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be   rivaled,   for  human  nature   in   the  tropics  cannot 
keep  up  the  pace  for  long." 

While  residing  in  Samoa,  Mr.  Ide  had  opportunities 
to  visit  repeatedly  the  Hawaiian  Islands,  Australia, 
and  New  Zealand,  where  he  made  a  careful  study  of 
the  people,  laws,  and  institutions  of  those  countries. 
On  his  return  home  he  came  by  the  way  of  the  Indian 
Ocean  and  Suez,  and  visited  India,  Italy,  Switzerland, 
Germany,  Belgium,  France,  England,  and  Scotland. 
His  wife  was  not  living,  and  his  oldest  daughter,  who 
had  been  for  a  time  with  him  in  Samoa  and  had  subse- 
quently graduated  from  the  University  of  Chicago, 
met  him  and  his  other  two  daughters  at  Naples  and 
the  family  were  together  during  the  remainder  of 
the  European  trip. 

Subsequently,  after  a  civil  war  had  occurred  in 
Samoa,  Mr.  Ide  was  asked  by  Secretary  of  State  Hay 
to  return  as  Chief  Justice,  but  declined  to  give  more 
of  his  life  to  that  field. 

In  the  year  1889,  for  the  purpose  of  making  a  more 
extensive  study  of  different  systems  of  native  and 
colonial  governments,  Mr.  Ide  made  an  extended 
trip,  visiting  the  negro  republic,  Haiti,  the  Danish 
possession  of  Saint  Thomas,  the  British  possessions 
of  Nassau,  Jamaica,  and  Trinidad,  the  French  posses- 
sion of  Martinique,  and  the  former  Spanish  possessions 
of  Porto  Rico  and  Cuba. 

In   March,    1900,    he   was    appointed   by  President 

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McKinley  as   a   member  of  the  Philippine   Commis- 
sion,   created  for  the   establishment  of  civil   govern- 
ment in  the  Philippine  Islands.    The  president  of  the 
Commission  was  William  H.  Taft,  and  other  members 
of  the  Commission  were  Luke  E.  Wright  of  Memphis, 
Tenn.,   afterwards  Ambassador   to  Tokio    and  Secre- 
tary of  War,    and   General    James    E.    Smith,    after- 
wards   Governor-General    of    the    Philippine    Islands. 
Upon  the  organization  of  the  civil  government,  Mr. 
Ide    was    made    Secretary    of    Finance    and    Justice, 
charged  with  the  administrative  duties  of  organizing 
a  Department  of  Justice  and  supervising  the  finances 
of  the  Islands,   including  the  currency,   the  customs, 
the  internal  revenue,  banks,  and  banking. 

Upon  the  appointment  of  Mr.  Taft  in  the  beginning 
of  1904  as  Secretary  of  War,  General  Wright  was  made 
Governor-General    and    Mr.    Ide    Vice-Governor.     In 

1905  Mr.   Ide   was   acting  Governor-General,   and  in 

1906  Governor-General,  making  nearly  seven  years 
of  service  in  the  Philippine  Islands  at  the  time  of  his 
resignation  in  October,  1906.  During  his  period  of 
service  there  he  was  the  author  of  more  than  three 
hundred  laws  of  the  Philippine  Islands,  including 
the  "Code  of  Civil  Procedure,"  "Internal  Revenue 
Law,"  "Land  Registration  Law,"  "Reorganization 
of  the  Currency,"  and  "Organization  of  the  Courts." 

At  a   banquet  given  to  Mr.  Ide  in  Manila  in  Feb- 
ruary, 1903,  before  his  departure  on  leave  of  absence 

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to  visit  his  home,  William  H.  Taft  said:  "Every  one 
who  knows  anything  about  the  Commission  knows 
that  when  one  presents  a  question  he  must  reckon 
with  the  independent,  clear-sighted,  and  keenly  ana- 
lytic mind  of  Judge  Ide,  and  that  Judge  Ide  has  saved 
the  Commission  from  doing  a  great  many  foolish 
things;  that  he  is  the  watchdog  of  our  treasury,  and  has 
done  more  to  keep  down  our  expenses  than  all  the 
other  members  of  the  Commission  together;  that 
the  'Code  of  Civil  Procedure'  which  is  working  so 
well  and  so  smoothly  is  wholly  the  work  of  Judge 
Ide;  that  there  is  no  harder  working  man  on  the 
Commission  than  Judge  Ide;  that  his  work  is  solely 
with  a  view  to  the  public  interest  and  the  interest 
of  these  Islands.  What  I  have  said  does  not  arise 
from  the  partiality  of  affectionate  regard,  though 
that  certainly  is  present,  but  it  arises  from  a  daily 
knowledge  of  what  Judge  Ide  has  done.  He  has  in- 
jured his  health  by  his  constant  application  in  this 
tropical  climate.  I  have  no  doubt  that  after  his  six 
weeks'  leave  he  will  return  to  these  islands  to  bring 
to  bear  again  upon  the  problems  that  await  us  that 
steam  engine  energy  and  that  calm,  deliberative 
judgment  which  have  solved  so  many  of  our  problems 
in  the  past.  I  extend  to  him  my  heartiest  congratula- 
tions on  the  high  excellence  of  his  work,  my  warmest 
affection    as    a    colleague,    my    highest    respect   as    a 


man." 


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Upon  the  conclusion  of  his  work  in  the  Philippines, 
he  received  a  letter  from  President  Roosevelt,  in 
which  he  said,  among  other  things,  "May  all  good 
fortune  be  yours.   You  richly  deserve  it." 

Of  Mr.  Ide's  work  as  head  of  the  Department  of 
Finance,  the  Manila  " People's  News"  of  Jan.  n, 
1905,  said:  "To  Judge  Ide  belongs  the  undivided 
honor  that  attaches  to  the  solid  monetary  system 
of  the  Philippines.  It  may  be  truthfully  said  of  Judge 
Ide  as  Webster  said  of  Hamilton,  'He  touched  the 
corpse  of  our  national  finance  and  it  immediately 
sprang  into  life.'" 

In  a  telegram  accepting  Mr.  Ide's  resignation  as 
Governor-General  in  September,  1906,  Secretary  of 
War  Taft  said:  "The  President  wishes  to  express 
his  high  appreciation  for  the  great  value  of  your 
earnest  and  able  service  for  the  last  six  years  to  the 
government  of  the  United  States  and  to  the  people 
of  the  Islands  as  Commissioner,  Secretary  of  Finance 
and  Justice,  Vice-Governor,  and  Governor-General. 
The  President  begs  you  to  express  to  your  successor 
his  sincere  belief  and  wish  that  he  will  continue  your 
work  and  policy  in  maintaining  a  government  in  the 
Philippine  Islands  solely  devoted  to  the  welfare  and 
progress  of  the  Philippine  people." 

Upon  leaving  Manila,  Mr.  Ide  was  the  recipient 
of  many  farewell  gifts,  and  the  guest  of  honor  at  a 
large    number   of    receptions    and    banquets.     Among 

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others  was  the  presentation  of  a  silver  loving  cup 
by  the  American  Chamber  of  Commerce  of  Manila, 
at  which  the  president  of  the  Chamber,  among  other 
things,  said:  "And  now,  Governor,  the  cup  is  yours. 
To  him  whose  hand  has  helped  to  shape  nearly  every 
important  act  of  legislation  that  has  been  enacted 
in  these  Islands  for  years,  to  him  who  leaves  us  with 
the  deep  regard  of  us  all,  in  behalf  of  the  American 
Chamber  of  Commerce  I  present  this  cup.  It  matters 
not  much  with  what  you  fill  it,  be  it  the  fruit  of  the 
grape,  or  even  that  glorious  milk  punch  which  your 
Vermont  cows  are  justly  celebrated  for  yielding,  the 
recollection  of  which  has  made  strong  men  like  you 
weep  at  the  thought  of  being  weaned  too  early,  but 
with  whatever  you  may  fill  it,  it  shall  not  displace 
one  portion  of  our  good  wishes,  our  abounding  re- 
gard, and  our  high  hopes  for  your  future." 

Soon  after  Mr.  Ide's  return  from  the  Philippines, 
he  was  appointed  receiver  of  the  Knickerbocker  Trust 
Company  of  New  York  City,  which  had  deposits 
to  the  amount  of  sixty  million  dollars.  Under  his 
administration  and  that  of  his  co-receivers,  the  Trust 
Company  within  less  than  a  year  was  able  to  reopen 
its  doors  and  continue  its  great  business. 

In  1909,  President  Taft  appointed  him  Envoy 
Extraordinary  and  Minister  Plenipotentiary  to  Spain. 
His  commission  was  the  first  one  of  foreign  minister 
or  ambassador  signed  by  President  Taft.   He  remained 

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in  that  office  until  August,  191 3,  when  his  resignation 
was    accepted. 

During  his  business  career  he  has  been  a  director 
in  various  banks,  manufacturing  and  railroad  com- 
panies, trustee  of  the  State  Normal  School,  of  the 
St.  Johnsbury  Academy,  and  of  the  Passumpsic  Sav- 
ings Bank. 

He  received  the  degree  of  LL.D.  from  Dartmouth 
College  in  1901,  and  the  same  degree  from  Tufts  Col- 
lege in  1903. 

Aside  from  the  authorship  of  between  three  and 
four  hundred  laws  of  the  Philippine  Islands,  he  has 
contributed  a  considerable  number  of  articles  to  the 
" North  American  Review,"  "The  Independent,"  and 
to  various  law  journals. 

His  home  address  is  St.  Johnsbury,  Vt. 

JOHN  EDGAR  JOHNSON 

John  Edgar  Johnson  was  born  in  Lowell,  Mass., 
Feb.  3,  1843.  After  graduation  he  attended  the  Uni- 
versity Divinity  School  at  Cambridge,  Mass.  Then 
he  pursued  his  studies  in  London  and  Heidelberg, 
Munich  and  Rome.  Returning  to  this  country  he 
became  a  minister  in  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church, 
officiating  as  rector  of  St.  Paul's  Church,  Hoboken, 
N.  J.,  and  as  rector  of  St.  John  the  Evangelist's  Church 
in  Philadelphia.  From  about  1880  onward,  for  more 
than   twenty  years,  he   preached  in  various  theaters 

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in  Philadelphia  with  large  success.  At  present  he  is 
superintendent  of  the  Social  Service  Society  of  the 
same  city  during  the  winter  seasons,  retiring  each 
summer  to  the  north  country  of  New  Hampshire,  where 
in  addition  to  some  evangelistic  work  he  has  interested 
himself  especially  in  promoting  outdoor  activities 
among  Dartmouth  students,  having  made  large  con- 
tributions of  time  and  money  to  the  Outing  Club, 
an  organization  of  which  he  is  honorary  president. 
Through  his  initiative,  student  camps  are  established 
at  proper  intervals  for  winter  excursions  from  Hanover 
to  the  distant  college  grants  in  northern  New  Hamp- 
shire. His  various  donations  to  the  college,  it  may  here 
be  remarked,  are  in  excess  of  forty  thousand  dollars. 

Mr.  Johnson,  during  the  Civil  War,  served  as 
first  lieutenant  of  the  1st  N.  H.  H.  A.  and  later  as  a 
captain  and  assistant  quartermaster  of  the  U.  S. 
Volunteers. 

He  is  president  of  the  Philadelphia  Dartmouth 
Alumni  Association;  author  of  numerous  published 
sermons  and  addresses,  which  have  had  a  wide  and 
well-deserved  acceptance. 

He  was  married  Oct.  15,  1877,  to  Martha  Jackson 
Ward  of  Newton,  Mass.  She  died  June  12,  191 1, 
without  issue. 

Rev.  Mr.  Johnson's  address  is  1229  South  58th 
Street,  Philadelphia,  Pa.  His  summer  residence  is 
Littleton,  N.  H. 

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DARTMOUTH    COLLEGE 

EDWARD  AUGUSTUS   KELLEY 

Edward  Augustus  Kelley  was  born  March  18, 
1845,  at  Newburyport,  Mass.,  son  of  Ex-Mayor 
Hon.  E.  G.  Kelley.  After  graduation  he  was  engaged 
in  the  stationery  business  in  Brattle  Street,  Boston. 
Abandoning  this  enterprise  after  indifferent  success, 
he  was  for  a  time  in  Chicago.  Returning  East,  he 
located  in  Somerville,  Mass.  Possessing  literary  ability, 
he  was  for  a  time  literary  editor  of  the  "  Somerville 
Journal,"  resigning  this  position  in  1876.  In  Septem- 
ber, 1875,  he  was  licensed  as  lay  reader  in  St.  Thomas' 
Episcopal  Church,  Somerville,  under  Rev.  George  W. 
Durell,  rector,  at  whose  home  he  died,  a  victim  of 
tuberculosis,  on  July  16,  1877.  Rev.  Dr.  Durell  said 
of  him,  "A  serious  loss  has  fallen  on  us  in  the 
death  of  a  vestryman,  delegate,  choirmaster  and  lay 
reader  of  this  parish.  Friend  and  spiritual  helper  to 
all,  he  was  the  especial  help  and  comfort  of  the 
Rector." 

From  Bishop  Paddock's  address  at  the  following 
convention,  we  quote:  "I  note  also  the  death  of  Edward 
A.  Kelley,  a  faithful  lay  reader  of  St.  Thomas'  Church, 
whom  I  knew  well  and  honored  for  his  labors  and  ever- 
increasing  worth,  and  whom  I  found,  as  his  insidious 
disease  gained  on  him,  daily  setting  his  house  in  order 
and  going  down  calmly  and  beautifully  to  the  grave 
and  gate  of  death,  looking  for  a  joyful  resurrection." 
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and  emblems  of  Hope  was  given  by  his   mother  in 
April,  1 88 1,  to  St.  Thomas'  Church. 

Mr.  Kelley  married  May  29,  1869,  Nellie  M., 
daughter  of  H.  B.  Ward  of  Cambridge. 

[In  his  early  experience  Mr.  Kelley  had  more  than  his  share 
of  trials,  personal  and  domestic,  but  aided  by  influential  friends 
he  made  a  creditable  recovery  and  had  begun  a  career  that 
promised  usefulness  and  honor  had  his  life  been  prolonged. 
In  college  we  recollect  him  as  modest,  refined  and  gentlemanly, 
abounding  in  social  graces  and  endowed  with  more  than  respect- 
able literary  and  musical  ability.] 

HENRY  APPLETON   KENDALL 

Henry  Appleton  Kendall  was  born  at  Dublin, 
N.  H.,  on  March  29,  1845,  son  of  Rev.  Henry  Adams 
and  Harriet  Greenwood  (Appleton)  Kendall.  Fitted 
for  college  at  Henniker  Academy,  Henniker,  N.  H. 

After  graduation  he  entered  the  Harvard  Medical 
School,  but  soon  engaged  in  mercantile  pursuits  in 
Boston.  He  has  also  experimented  freely  in  book- 
selling, bookkeeping,  and  in  newspaper  work.  For  the 
last  twelve  years  he  has  been  sexton  and  custodian 
of  the  First  Congregational  (Unitarian)  Church  and 
Hall,  Somerville,  Mass. 

On  June  21,  1870,  he  married  Frances  Lovett 
Conant  of  Mount  Vernon,  N.  H.,  she  dying  April  8, 
1901.  His  children  are:  Gertrude  Greenwood,  born 
Oct.  27,  1 871,  married  July  27,  1904,  to  Roger  Lewis 
Conant,  a  graduate  of  Columbia  in  the  Class  of  1895, 
residence,     El    Paso,    Tex.;     Franklin    Conant,    born 

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April  29,  1873,  now  Hamilton  efficiency  expert,  located 
in  New  York;  Marion  Colby,  born  April  5,  1879, 
now  auditor's  clerk  in  the  city  hall,  Somerville,  Mass.; 
Marcella  Fornis,  born  Dec.  18,  1882,  now  clerk  in  the 
tax  commissioner's  office,  State  House,  Boston,  Mass. 
Mr.  Kendall's  address  is  55  Oxford  Street,  Somer- 
ville, Mass. 

[Classmates  charitably  interested  in  this  individual  will  find 
his  autobiography  in  the  Appendix.] 

EUGENE   PECK   KINGSLEY 

Eugene  Peck  Kingsley  was  born  May  23,  1845,  at 
Tarlton,  O.  After  graduation  he  received  the  degree 
of  M.D.  from  the  Charity  Medical  Hospital  of 
Cleveland  in  1868;  practised  medicine  in  Cleveland 
and  in  Urbana,  O.,  but  later  gave  up  practice  and 
was  traveling  agent  for  drug  companies  and  for  in- 
surance. He  was  employed  in  the  medical  department 
of  the  Union  army  during  the  early  part  of  the  Civil 
War.  He  settled  for  five  years  on  a  farm  in  Virginia 
near  Fredericksburg,  removing  thence  to  Wisconsin, 
and  later  to  Boise,  Ida.,  where  he  died  May  5,  1914. 

Mr.  Kingsley  married  Anna  Mumper  in  1870, 
having  one  daughter,  Mrs.  Kathryn  Gennon,  Urbana, 
O.  " Billy"  Kingsley  is  well  remembered  by  his  former 
classmates  for  abounding  animal  spirits  and  for  an 
irrepressible  bonhomie  which,  it  is  a  pleasure  to  note, 
never  deserted  him  through  the  vicissitudes  of  a  some- 
what adventurous  and  variegated  career. 

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THOMAS   PEARSON   KINSLEY 

Thomas  Pearson  Kinsley  was  born  Oct.  n,  1845, 
and  graduated  with  the  Class  of  1866,  Scientific  De- 
partment of  Dartmouth  College.  He  married  Marion 
O.  Blake  on  Nov.  16,  1871.  Children:  Marion,  born 
Nov.  3,  1872;  Maude,  Dec.  9,  1873.  He  was  with 
the  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  Park  Commission  for  about 
nine  years  after  graduation,  most  of  the  time  as  divi- 
sion engineer.  He  was  chief  engineer  of  the  Brighton 
Beach  R.  R.,  Brooklyn  to  Coney  Island,  during  con- 
struction. Was  for  several  years  on  railroad  construc- 
tion work  in  New  York  State,  Delaware,  Maryland, 
and  South  Carolina,  New  Hampshire,  and  Massachu- 
setts. Was  in  firm  that  rebuilt  fifty  miles  of  Chesa- 
peake and  Ohio  Canal  in  1890.  As  superintendent  and 
contractor,  he  constructed  about  thirty  miles  of  track 
work  on  electric  street  railroad  in  Baltimore,  Md. 
From  1900  for  eight  years  was  contractor's  engineer  for 
three  and  one-half  miles  of  the  New  York  subway. 
Also  contractor  for  about  a  mile  of  concrete  founda- 
tion for  elevated  structure  of  subway.  Was  two  years 
superintendent  of  quarry  and  crushing  plant  for 
concrete  stone  required  on  nine  miles  of  New  York 
aqueduct.  For  a  number  of  years,  and  at  present,  con- 
tractor for  landscape  work  on  private  estates.  At 
various  times  a  member  of  the  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  and 
the  Maryland  Historical  Societies.  At  present  a 
member    of    the    American    Society    Civil    Engineers, 

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New  York  Railroad  Club,  National  Geographic  Society, 
American  Forestry  Association. 

CHARLES   EDWIN  LANE 

Charles  Edwin  Lane  was  born  at  Wakefield,  N.  H., 
March  30,  1839,  son  of  Winthrop  Marston  and  Frances 
Ann  (Morrison)  Lane. 

He  prepared  for  college  at  the  New  Hampshire 
Conference  Seminary,  entered  Dartmouth  College  in 
1862,  and  received  the  degree  of  A.B.  in  1866.  Upon 
leaving  college  he  continued  for  a  time  in  the  pro- 
fession of  teaching;  was  principal  of  Westfield  Acad- 
emy, Westfield,  N.  Y.,  principal  of  public  school, 
Columbus,  0.,  and  superintendent  of  public  schools 
at  Van  Wert,  0.  In  1869  he  received  from  his  Alma 
Mater  the  degree  of  A.M. 

In  1870  he  was  appointed  southwestern  manager 
of  the  educational  department  of  D.  Appleton  &  Co., 
at  St.  Louis,  and  in  1875  was  transferred  to  Chicago 
as  northwestern  manager  for  the  same  company, 
which  position  he  held  until  1890,  when  he  became 
manager  of  the  high  school  and  college  department 
of  the  American  Book  Company  in  Chicago. 

In  191 2  he  retired  from  active  business  after  forty- 
six  years'  continuous  service  in  the  educational  field. 

Mr.  Lane  is  president  of  Lombard  State  Bank, 
having  occupied  this  position  since  its  organization 
in  1909. 

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He  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  present  Uni- 
versity Congregational  Church  in  Chicago,  was  a  mem- 
ber of  its  first  Board  of  Trustees,  and  was  chairman 
of  the  Building  Committee  for  the  erection  of  its  first 
house  of  worship  and  for  the  building  of  its  parsonage 
on  the  present  site,  near  the  University  of  Chicago. 

Mr.  Lane  and  a  few  other  public-spirited  men, 
desiring  the  local  betterment  of  civic,  intellectual, 
and  social  conditions  in  the  community,  erected  in 
Lombard  a  creditable,  suitable  building  for  the  activi- 
ties of  its  residents.  The  results  are  gratifying  to  those 
who  instituted  and  foster  the  enterprise. 

Mr.  Lane  married  Sept.  5,  1870,  at  Columbus, 
0.,  Caroline  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  George  W.  and 
Sarah  H.  (Runyan)  Lewis  of  Mt.  Vernon,  0.  His 
children  are  Grace,  who  was  graduated  from  Smith 
College  in  1893  and  later  married  Otis  L.  Beardsley 
of  Chicago,  residing  at  Highland  Park,  111.;  Walter 
Appleton  Lane,  A.B.  Dartmouth  1895,  M.D.  Harvard 
Medical  School  1899,  married  Mary  Hoadly  Chase 
of  Hanover,  N.  H.,  and  is  a  practising  physician  at 
Milton,  Mass.;  Ethel,  a  graduate  of  Smith  College 
1901,  is  the  wife  of  Wellington  Smith,  Jr.  (Williams 
1901),  and  with  their  two  children,  Elizabeth  Lane 
and  Wellington  3d,  resides  at  Lee,  Mass. 

Mr.  Lane  is  a  member  of  the  Northwestern  Alumni 
Association  D.  K.  E.,  is  a  charter  member  of  the 
Dartmouth   College  Alumni   Association   of   Chicago, 

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and  has  served  each  organization  as  president.  He 
was  for  several  years  a  member  of  the  Union  League 
Club,  the  Iroquois  Club,  and  is  a  life  member  of  the 
Hamilton  Club,  all  of  Chicago,  and  a  member  of  the 
Glen  Oak  Country  Club,  Lombard,  111.  His  residence 
is  Lombard,  111.,  a  suburb  of  Chicago. 

We  quote  the  following  from  the  "Historical  En- 
cyclopedia of  Illinois,"  Vol.  II: 

"Mr.  Lane  moved  from  Hyde  Park,  Chicago,  to 
Lombard  in  April,  1899,  having  purchased  and  im- 
proved the  homestead  of  the  late  Dr.  W.  G.  LeRoy, 
and  soon  made  his  influence  felt,  for  in  1901  he  was 
elected  president  of  the  town  of  Lombard  and  was 
unanimously  re-elected  to  the  same  office  for  three 
successive  terms,  retiring  in  1905. 

"During  his  four  terms  in  office,  he  and  his  as- 
sociates in  the  council  made  the  following  improve- 
ments in  the  town:  Initiated  and  set  well  under  way 
the  substitution  of  cement  for  plank  sidewalks;  in- 
troduced gas  for  public  and  private  use;  changed  the 
form  of  government  of  the  town  from  its  restrictive 
special  charter  to  the  General  Law  of  the  State  for 
the  government  of  Cities,  Towns  and  Villages;  con- 
tracted for  a  site  for  town  hall,  engine  house,  and 
water  works;  drilled  a  well  for  public  water  supply; 
established  a  sinking  fund  to  provide  water  and  lights, 
and  constructed  the  Park  Side  driveway  which  origi- 
nated with  the  preceding  administration. 

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"Mr.  Lane  was  elected  director,  and  chosen  chair- 
man of  the  Building  Committee  for  the  erection  of 
the  building  of  the  Lombard  State  Bank,  and  was 
elected  its  first  president,  which  position  he  has  held 
continuously  to  the  present  time. 

"He  is  a  citizen  of  public  spirit  who  takes  pride 
in  the  improvement  and  growth  of  Lombard,  both 
materially  and  intellectually,  and  supports  liberally 
all  measures  tending  towards  that  end." 

FRANCIS  WESLEY  LEWIS 

Francis  Wesley  Lewis,  born  in  Claremont,  N.  H., 
March  30,  1840,  the  son  of  George  G.  Lewis  and 
Adelaide  Labaree.  He  was  the  second  of  five  sons, 
all  of  whom  graduated  from  Dartmouth.  He  pre- 
pared for  college  at  Kimball  Union  Academy.  From 
1866  to  1868  he  was  principal  of  the  high  school  at  East 
Randolph,  Mass.,  which  soon  after  became  the  separate 
town  of  Holbrook  through  his  efforts;  submaster  of 
the  Prescott  Grammar  School  at  Charlestown,  Mass., 
1868-70;  and  teacher  of  Latin  in  Dean  Academy, 
Franklin,  Mass.,  1870-71.  He  was  married  at  Hol- 
brook, Dec.  13,  1870,  to  Mary  Burr,  daughter  of 
Newton  and  Rhoda  (White)  White.  He  began  soon 
after  to  study  law  in  the  office  of  Henry  W.  Paine 
of  Boston,  and  in  1872  became  a  member  of  the  Boston 
Bar.  In  1873  he  began  practice  in  the  town  of  Wey- 
mouth,   Mass.,    where    he    became    interested    in    all 

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matters  affecting  the  public  welfare,  and  especially 
in  developing  and  perfecting  the  public  library  system. 
In  1885  he  removed  to  Lincoln,  Neb.,  to  join  his 
brother,  Henry  E.  Lewis,  '72,  in  the  business  of  farm 
mortgages  and  western  bonds.  Here  also  he  showed 
that  great  public  spirit  which  characterized  his  whole 
life.  At  that  time  Lincoln  was  politically  in  the  hands 
of  the  saloon  element  and  others  profiting  by  law- 
lessness. Mr.  Lewis  served  for  a  number  of  years 
as  attorney  of  the  Law  and  Order  League,  and  after 
many  discouragements  obtained  the  conviction  of 
several  prominent  lawbreakers.  He  was  then  in- 
strumental in  organizing  an  independent  municipal 
party,  and  twice  carried  on  successful  campaigns, 
leading  to  the  election  of  two  reform  candidates  for 
mayor.  In  1894  he  returned  to  the  East,  residing  at 
Newton,  Mass.  During  the  last  few  years  of  his  life 
he  devoted  himself  entirely  to  an  endeavor  to  improve 
the  lot  of  the  working  man.  Through  magazine  articles, 
and  especially  through  his  book  on  "State  Insurance," 
published  in  1909,  he  made  an  earnest  plea  for  public 
attention  to  some  of  the  crying  injustices  of  our  social 
system.  After  an  illness  of  a  year  and  a  half,  he  died 
at  the  Memorial  Hospital,  Concord,  N.  H.,  Oct.  8, 
1909,  of  intestinal  cancer,  leaving  a  widow  and  three 
children:  Mary  H.  Lewis,  teacher  in  the  Horace 
Mann  School,  New  York  City;  Gilbert  N.  Lewis, 
professor  of  chemistry  at  the  Massachusetts  In- 
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stitute  of  Technology;  and  Roger  L.  Lewis,  instructor 
in  English  in  Harvard  University. 

Our  classmate  Ide  says  of  him:  "Lewis,  as  you 
know,  was  one  of  the  most  substantial  men  of  our 
class;  one  of  the  brightest  scholars,  and  thorough  and 
strong  in  his  work.  He  was  one  of  the  most  con- 
scientious and  independent  men  I  ever  knew,  and 
never  wavered  in  his  convictions,  political,  social, 
and  moral." 

HORACE   EUGENE  MARION 
Horace    Eugene    Marion,    born    Aug.    3,    1843,    at 
Burlington,  Mass.  Married  Jan.  14,  1880,  to  Catherine 
Louis  Sparhawk.    Three  children  were  born  to  them, 
of  whom  two  survive. 

In  1862  he  enlisted  in  Company  G,  Fifth  Massachu- 
setts Volunteer  Infantry.  Graduated  from  Dartmouth 
Medical  College  in  1869,  beginning  practice  the  fol- 
lowing year  at  Brighton,  Mass.,  where,  apart  from 
time  spent  in  medical  study  at  Berlin  and  Vienna,  he 
continued  until  the  time  of  his  death.  Dr.  Marion 
built  up  a  large  and  lucrative  practice  and  achieved  a 
wide  reputation  in  medicine  and  surgery.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Massachusetts  Medical  Society,  presi- 
dent of  the  South  District  Medical  Society,  a  member 
of  the  Boston  Society  of  Medical  Science  and  of  the 
Boston  and  Cambridge  Medical  Improvement  Societies. 
Early  in  his  career  he  served  his  town  as  coroner, 

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later  as  physician  to  the  overseers  of  the  poor,  and 
afterwards  as  physician  to  the  public  schools  of  Boston. 
Dr.  Marion  was  a  Master  Mason,  a  member  of  the 
R.  A.  Chapter  of  Cambridge,  of  the  DeMolay  Com- 
mandery  of  Boston  and  Past  District  Deputy  Grand 
Master.  He  served  two  years  as  Commander  of  the 
Francis  Washburn  Post  No.  92,  G.  A.  R.,  of  which 
he  was  a  charter  member.  At  his  death  he  was  surgeon 
of  the  Edward  Kinsley  Post  No.  113,  G.  A.  R. 

For  many  years  he  was  connected  with  the  Massa- 
chusetts State  Militia,  first  as  assistant  surgeon  of  the 
Fifth  Regiment,  then  as  surgeon  of  the  Fourth  Bat- 
talion and  as  medical  director  of  the  First  Brigade  on 
the  staff  of  Gen.  Hobart  Moore,  a  position  which  en- 
titled him  to  the  rank  of  colonel.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  University  Club  and  the  St.  Botolph  Club  of 
Boston. 

JOHN  CLAY  McKOWEN 

John  Clay  McKowen,  born  March  26,  1842,  at 
Jackson,  La.  Practised  medicine  at  Clinton,  East 
Feliciana  Parish,  La.,  where  his  brothers  lived  and 
where  the  family  was  much  respected.  Finally  he 
went  abroad  and  lived  a  life  of  wandering  in  Europe, 
where  he  is  reported  to  have  married  an  Italian  lady 
and  to  have  had  several  children  by  her.  After  about 
twenty  years  in  Italy  he  returned  to  this  country, 
wifeless   and  childless,   and  endeavored  to  regain  his 

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practice  here.  During  his  absence  abroad  he  is  credited 
with  receiving  the  degree  of  M.D.  from  the  University 
of  Munich  in  1896. 

Dr.  McKowen  met  his  death  in  1902  by  violence, 
having  engaged  in  a  quarrel  with  a  prominent  citizen, 
who  after  trial  was  acquitted  as  having  acted  merely 
in  self-defence. 

The  doctor  was  a  man  of  considerable  literary  ability 
and  possessed  the  enviable  faculty  of  making  and 
keeping  personal  friendships.  At  the  same  time  he 
was  not  careful  to  avoid  social  and  professional  enmi- 
ties, in  one  of  which  his  career  was  suddenly  cut 
short  as  related  above. 

CHESTER  WRIGHT  MERRILL 

Chester  Wright  Merrill  was  born  at  Montpelier, 
Vt.,  on  April  23,  1846.  After  graduation  he  was  a 
teacher  in  Appleton  Academy,  New  Ipswich,  N.  H., 
and  was  engaged  in  introducing  schoolbooks  in  Ver- 
mont until  1870.  Removed  to  Cincinnati;  studied 
law  in  Cincinnati  Law  School  and  was  admitted  to 
the  Bar  in  1871.  Was  first  assistant  librarian  of  the 
Cincinnati  Public  Library  from  1878  to  1880,  and 
librarian  from  1880  until  1886,  the  library  then  being 
the  second  one  in  size  in  the  country.  For  six 
years  he  was  a  member  of  the  Cincinnati  Board  of 
Education  and  for  twelve  years  a  member  of  the 
Board  of  Examiners  of  Teachers   in   Cincinnati.    He 

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published  a  volume  of  the  ordinances   of   Cincinnati 
in  1878. 

He  married  Dec.  12,  1878,  Mary  Franklin  of  Chilli- 
cothe,    O.,    and    has    four    children.     (1)     Elizabeth, 
born  Oct.  30,   1879;  graduated  at  University  of  Cin- 
cinnati in  1890,  cum  summa  laude;  took  postgraduate 
course  at  the  university  and  at  Yale  and  was  given 
the  degree  of  Ph.D.;  married  June  7,  1911,  Dr.  Albert 
T.   Cook,   professor  of  English   at  Yale,   and   resides 
in    New   Haven.     (2)  Julia    Wright,    born    Sept.    11, 
1 881;  was  for  two  years   at  the  University  of  Cin- 
cinnati, and  later  graduated  from  the  Library  School 
of  the  University  of  Illinois;   at  present   is   superin- 
tendent   of    all    the    branch    libraries    of    Cincinnati. 
(3)  Ferrand  Seymour,  born  Nov.  28,  1883,  graduated 
in  1905  from  the  College  of  Engineering  of  the  Ohio 
State  University;  was  for  a  time  instructor  of  struc- 
tural engineering  in  that  university;  since  then  has 
been  in  the  employ  of  the  American  Bridge  Co.,  and 
is  now  located  at  Pittsburgh,  Pa.    He  married  June, 
19 1 2,  Sarah  Etta  Warrington  of  Toledo,  0.,  and  has 
two    children, — Rachel    Ann,    born    July   30,    1913, 
and  Timothy   Warrington,    born    May    2,    1915.    (4) 
Natalie,  Mr.  Merrill's  youngest  child,  was  born  July 
18,  1886;  is  a  graduate  of  the  University  of  Cincinnati 
and  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa  (1908).  Mr.  Merrill's 
address  is  Josephine  Street,  Cincinnati. 


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GEORGE   MOORE 

George  Moore  was  born  March  12,  1842,  at  Peter- 
boro,  N.  H.,  and  died  May  5,  1867,  at  Marietta,  O. 

Seldom,  as  a  memory,  is  a  man  so  honored.  It  is 
the  record  of  his  college  course  that  must  be  em- 
phasized here,  as  his  death  occurred  within  a  year  of 
his  graduation. 

He  was  the  third  child  and  second  son  of  Nathaniel 
Holmes  Moore,  and  was  born  upon  the  farm  which 
for  more  than  a  century  and  a  quarter  had  been  the 
family  homestead.  After  a  limited  course  of  prepara- 
tion at  Appleton  Academy,  New  Ipswich,  N.  H.,  he 
entered  Dartmouth  in  1862,  and  began  that  career  of 
self-respecting  and  Christian  manliness  which  inevitably 
resulted  in  that  pure,  lovely,  transparent  character, 
which  became  an  inspiration  to  his  class  and  his  college 
and  has  remained  with  us  to  this  day. 

In  the  fall  of  1866  he  entered  upon  his  duties  as 
principal  of  the  high  school,  Marietta,  O.,  as  offer- 
ing him  the  means  of  pursuing  later  the  main  object 
of  his  life,  the  Christian  ministry.  Finding  conditions 
at  the  school  unsatisfactory,  upon  invitation  of  his 
friend  and  classmate  Chase,  he  removed  to  Cincinnati 
and  became  an  officer  in  one  of  the  public  institu- 
tions of  that  city.  Suddenly  he  was  overcome  by 
disease  and,  attended  faithfully  by  his  friend,  passed 
away. 

At  his  funeral  the  four  congregations  of  his  native 

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town  united  in  the  last  solemn  services.  One  who 
was  present  says,  "A  more  general  expression  of 
sorrow  for  the  death  of  so  young  a  man,  and  such 
a  uniform  testimony  to  his  manly  Christian  character 
I  have  never  witnessed." 

These  incidents  and  reflections  are  mainly  taken 
from  a  discriminating  and  affecting  memorial  ad- 
dress delivered  by  his  friend  and  classmate,  Ide,  by 
request  of  the  class. 

JOSEPH  PERKINS   NEAL 

Joseph  Perkins  Neal  was  born  July  24,  1843,  at 
Norwich,  Vt.,  son  of  Eli  Perkins  and  Mary  (Jenks) 
Neal. 

The  Civil  War  interrupted  his  college  course  at 
its  commencement,  and  he  enlisted  June  24,  1862, 
in  the  Dartmouth  Cavalry,  which  became  part  of 
Company  B  in  the  7th  Rhode  Island  Cavalry. 

Having  completed  three  months'  service,  he  was 
mustered  out  in  Providence,  R.  I.,  Oct.  2,  1862,  and 
was  enlisted  again  as  a  private,  Feb.  27,  1865,  in 
Company  F  of  the  1st  New  Hampshire  Cavalry,  being 
mustered  out  July  15,  1865. 

After  graduation  he  was  engaged  in  teaching  in 
Westerly,  R.  I.,  where  he  resided  for  several  years, 
instructor  in  Mr.  Foster's  school  for  boys.  Thence 
he  removed  to  Fort  Wayne,  Ind.,  where  Wright  and 
Irwin   of   '67   were    running    a    newspaper.     Assisting 

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them,  he  was  also  employed  in  teaching.  Becoming 
a  victim  of  tuberculosis  he  returned  to  Hanover,  where 
he  died  May  9,  1891. 

JOHN  OSCAR  NORRIS 

John  Oscar  Norris  was  born  at  Chester,  N,  H., 
Nov.  22,  1843.  Lived  six  years  in  Fremont,  N.  H., 
and  then  removed  to  Methuen,  Mass.  Prepared  for 
college  at  Atkinson  Academy.  In  September,  1866,  he 
was  elected  master  of  the  Adams  Grammar  School, 
Quincy,  Mass.  He  resigned  the  following  April  and  in 
May  organized  the  high  school  of  Ashland,  Mass.  In 
1868,  he  became  usher  of  the  Brimmer  School,  Boston. 
In  1870  he  was  submaster  of  the  Boston  English 
High  School;  was  master  of  the  East  Boston  High 
School  in  1878;  and  in  1885  was  made  headmaster 
of  the  Charlestown  High  School,  where  he  remained 
until  his  death,  June  14,  1905. 

Married  in  May,  1869,  Katherine  M.,  daughter 
of  Jonathan  S.  and  Sophronia  Gordon.  She  died  June 
5,  1874.  He  married  again  April  6,  1876,  Henrietta 
W.,  daughter  of  Rev.  D.  P.  and  Mrs.  Mary  A.  Liver- 
more.  His  children  by  the  first  marriage  are  Marion, 
Katherine,  Alfred  Edson,  and  George  Gordon  Norris. 
By  the  second  marriage,  Emma  Ashton,  Ethel  Louise, 
and  John  Oscar  Norris,  Jr. 

Alfred  Edson  Norris  graduated  at  Dartmouth  in 
1894,  and  John  Oscar,  Jr.,  in  191 1. 

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Mr.  Norris  served  as  chairman  of  the  school  com- 
mittee in  Melrose  in  1892;  was  secretary  of  the  New 
England  Conference  of  Educational  Workers;  vice- 
president  of  the  American  Institute  of  Instruction; 
was  a  member  of  the  Unitarian  Club  and  an  early 
president  of  the  Unitarian  Sunday  School  Society 
of  Boston;  for  ten  years  was  superintendent  of  the 
Unitarian  Sunday  School  of  Melrose  and  for  twenty- 
two  years  a  member  of  the  quartette  choir.  He  was  also 
active  in  numerous  musical  and  literary  organizations. 

His  decease  was  a  great  loss  to  educational  and 
religious  circles  and  called  forth  sincere  expressions 
of  regret  wherever  he  was  known. 

WALDEMER  OTIS 
Waldemer  Otis,  born  Dec.  21,  1845,  at  Cleveland, 
0.,  son  of  William  Francis  and  Isabella  Murrell 
Otis.  Prepared  for  college  at  Hudson,  0.  After 
graduation  at  Dartmouth  he  returned  to  Cleveland 
and  engaged  for  four  years  with  his  father  in  the 
elevator  and  grain  business,  then  entered  the  Harvard 
Law  School  and  was  later  admitted  to  the  Bar  of 
Ohio.  He  was  soon  drawn  into  local  politics  and 
real  estate  operations.  Was  nominated  on  two  oc- 
casions for  mayor  of  Cleveland,  being  defeated  by 
narrow  margins.  Was  a  delegate  to  the  St.  Louis 
National  Convention  in  1876,  when  Samuel  J.  Tilden 
received  his  nomination  for  President. 

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Married  in  1884  to  Lillie  L.  Wiley,  and  took  up  his 

residence    in    Brooklyn    at    390   Washington   Avenue, 

where  he  still  resides,  not  being  at  the  present  time 

engaged  in  active  business.    In  1892  and  again  in  1897 

in  company  with  his  wife  he  made  extensive  European 

tours. 

[Mr.  Otis  has  remembered  his  Alma  Mater  by  establishing  a 
fund  for  an  annual  prize-speaking  contest  at  Dartmouth  in  the 
name  of  the  Class  of  1866.  Being  too  modest  to  mention  this 
circumstance  himself,  we  take  pleasure  in  noting  the  fact  and 
commending  his  worthy  example  to  any  member  of  any  class 
to  whom  such  a  memorial  may  appeal.  We  also  observe  that  Mr. 
Otis  heads  a  late  communication  with  the  sage  remark  that 
"all  life  is  a  compromise."  It  is  agreeable  to  record  that  in  spite 
of  such  an  ambiguous  deliverance,  from  the  lips  outward,  his 
career  as  a  professional  man  and  worthy  citizen  has  been  an 
uncompromising  success  from  the  beginning.  Undoubtedly  he 
would  indorse  as  cheerfully  the  words  of  Goethe,  "Get  rid  of  com- 
promise, and  live  resolutely  in  that  which  is  entire,  constructive 
and  beautiful."] 

WILLIAM  BURTON  PERRIN 

William  Burton  Perrin  was  born  Jan.  19,  1839, 
at  Berlin,  Vt.  He  entered  college  with  the  Class  of 
1865,  but  left  in  June  of  1862  to  enlist  in  Company  B, 
7th  Squadron,  Rhode  Island  Cavalry  (the  college  com- 
pany), with  which  he  served  to  the  following  October. 
Oct.  20,  1863,  he  was  commissioned  lieutenant  in  the 
3rd  Battery,  Vermont  Light  Artillery,  and  served 
to  the  close  of  the  war.  Returning  to  college,  he  com- 
pleted his  course  and  graduated.  He  then  studied 
law,  and  after  practising  for  a  short  time  in  Burling- 
ton, la.,  he  removed  to  Nashua,  which  he  ever  after 

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made  his  home.  He  soon  became  known  as  a  man  of 
diligence,  sound  judgment,  and  strict  integrity.  He 
never  sought  political  preferment,  but  without  his 
solicitation  he  was  twice  nominated  by  the  Republican 
party  and  elected  to  the  lower  house  of  the  state 
legislature,  and  also  for  two  terms  to  the  state  senate. 
Mr.  Perrin  never  married. 

He  died  May  10,  1907,  at  Nashua,  la.,  his  death 
being  the  occasion  of  well-merited  eulogy  from  the 
Bar  for  his  varied  abilities,  and  from  private  sources 
a  general  testimony  to  the  value  of  his  example  in 
point  of  character  and  hearty  appreciation  of  his 
services  to  the  town  and  state  of  his  adoption. 

HENRY  SMITH  PHETTEPLACE 
Henry    Smith    Phetteplace,    born    Aug.    16,    1842, 
at  Providence,  R.  I.  According  to  the  General  Catalogue 
he  was  judge  of  probate  in  Michigan.    His   address 
is  unknown. 

All  attempts  to  establish  communication  with  him, 
by  the  faculty  and  alumni  of  the  college,  have  proved 
unavailing,  and  it  is  practically  certain  that  he  is 
no  longer  living. 

JOHN  METCALF  PIERCE 
John    Metcalf    Pierce,    son    of    Rev.    Willard    and 
Eleanor  Ware   (Everett)   Pierce,   was  born  in  North 
Abington,     Mass.,     Aug.     22,     1842.     He     attended 

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Day's  Academy,  Wrentham,  Mass.,  and  Abington 
public  schools.  Teacher,  Hopkinton,  Mass.,  1861-62; 
student,  Dartmouth  College,  Dec,  1862- July,  1863; 
teacher,  Foxboro,  Mass.,  1863-65;  superintendent 
of  Foxboro  schools,  1866;  in  business,  Philadelphia, 
Pa.,  1867-68;  1869-73,  in  business  in  Chicago  and 
teaching  school  at  Lombard,  111.;  1874-85,  chief 
clerk  for  Miss  Ada  C.  Sweet,  U.  S.  Pension  Agent 
at  Chicago.  Teacher  of  English  in  the  Crane  Techni- 
cal High  School,  Chicago,  from  1891  to  1908,  when 
he  resigned  on  account  of  ill  health,  and  returned 
to  the  East,  making  his  home  at  Rockland  (formerly 
East  Abington),  Mass.    Unmarried. 

GEORGE  HARLIN  PILLSBURY 

George  Harlin  Pillsbury,  born  June  8,  1843,  at 
Lowell,  Mass.  Entered  Harvard  Medical  School  soon 
after  graduation,  receiving  the  degree  of  M.D.  in 
1869.  During  the  last  year  at  Harvard  he  was  medical 
interne  at  Chelsea  Marine  Hospital.  After  leaving 
the  hospital  he  took  a  postgraduate  course  in  Paris, 
remaining  there  about  a  year.  On  his  return  he  began 
the  practice  of  his  profession  at  Lowell,  where  he 
continues  it  at  the  present  time. 

Married  June  5,  1872,  to  Mary  A.  Boyden.  His 
children  are:  Boyden  H.  Pillsbury,  M.D.;  George  B. 
Pillsbury,  Major  U.  S.  A.  C.  E.;  Henry  C.  Pillsbury, 
Captain  U.  S.  A.  C;  Mary  B.  Pillsbury.    Two  sons, 

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Boyden  and  Henry,  were  graduated  from  Dartmouth, 
as  were  their  father  and  grandfather,  thus  easily 
establishing  a  record  for  the  class  in  this  particular, 
if  not  indeed  for  this  college. 

Dr.  Pillsbury  has  not  mingled  in  politics,  but  was 
for  several  years  a  valued  member  of  the  Lowell 
School  Board. 

He  resides  at  44  Kirk  Street,  Lowell,  Mass. 

[A  more  detailed  communication  from  Dr.  Pillsbury  will  be 
found  in  the  Appendix.] 

JAMES  POWELL 

James  Powell  was  born  in  Wales,  Dec.  25,  1842. 
At  an  early  age  he  came  to  this  country,  graduating 
at  Dartmouth  in  1866,  and  at  Andover  in  1869.  He 
received  the  degree  of  D.D.  in  1884  from  Iowa  College; 
was  pastor  in  Newburyport,  Mass.,  1869-73. 

He  married  Miss  Ella  Andrews  of  Nashua,  N.  H. 
Two  sons,  and  perhaps  other  children  were  born  to 
them.  His  health  becoming  impaired,  he  aided  in 
introducing  the  Jubilee  Singers  to  the  English  public. 
Returning,  he  became  corresponding  secretary  to  the 
American  Missionary  Association,  East  and  West. 
His  arduous  labors  undermined  a  constitution  naturally 
delicate,  and,  universally  regretted,  he  died  in  harness, 
Dec.  25,   1887. 

We  quote  from  the  "American  Missionary,"  of 
February,  1888:  "Dr.  Powell  was  an  orator  born,  not 

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made.  His  eloquence  was  not  of  the  Websterian  sort, 
massive  and  logical,  but  rather  of  that  magnetic  kind 
which  wins  and  sways  an  audience  at  will,  sometimes 
to  smiles  and  then  to  tears,  but  always  with  definite 
persuasion.  He  was  a  brilliant  writer  as  well  as  speaker. 
His  pen  glowed  with  a  special  inspiration,  and  was 
prolific  as  well.  The  pages  of  the  'American  Mis- 
sionary,' the  columns  of  the  weekly  religious  press, 
the  numerous  circulars  issued  from  this  office  and  his 
abundant  correspondence,  all  bear  witness  to  this. 
He  was  a  wise  man  in  counsel.  The  impassioned  and 
imaginative  speaker  is  not  usually  characterized  by 
a  cautious  judgment  or  administrative  gifts;  but  we 
have  found  in  this  office  that  when  grave  questions 
arose  for  consideration  Dr.  Powell  was  remarkably 
conservative  and  judicious.  But  the  crowning  glory 
of  the  man  was  his  bright  and  genial  nature,  and  his 
warm  and  devoted  Christian  character.  It  was  this 
that  won  all  hearts,  that  made  him  welcome  on  every 
platform  and  in  every  pulpit,  that  bound  his  friends 
to  him  in  warmest  attachment,  that  opened  the  doors 
of  all  homes  to  him,  and  that  leaves  the  memory  of 
brightness  behind  him  in  the  offices  where  he  toiled 
and  in  his  own  dear  home.  His  life  went  out,  not  as 
the  lightning's  flash,  that  leaves  the  deeper  darkness 
behind,  nor  as  the  setting  sun,  that  has  the  night 
before  and  after,  but  his  departure  from  life  was  only 
the   entrance   into   eternal   brightness,    and   leaves    a 

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radiance   behind   that   will   be   a   perpetual   joy    and 
consolation  to  his  friends." 

[Powell,  as  we  all  delight  to  remember,  was  pre-eminently 
vital  in  every  function  of  his  being.  As  a  scholar,  companion, 
playmate,  and  official  monitor  of  the  class,  he  was  a  miracle  of 
energy  and  whole-hearted  endeavor.  These  characteristics  went 
with  him  beyond  our  sphere  of  observation  and  undoubtedly 
shortened  his  most  useful  and  valuable  life. 

We  regret  not  having  been  able  to  include  more  detail  of  his 
family  and  professional  connections.] 

LEVI   RODGERS 

[We  give  the  following  notice  in  the  writer's  own 
words,  partly  on  account  of  his  personal  merit,  but 
still  more  as  delineating  somewhat  at  length  the 
work  and  the  ideals  of  the  Christian  ministry.  We 
are  aware  that  the  ministerial  branch  of  the  present 
record  is  too  slightly  developed  in  the  brief  notices 
we  have  received  from  the  members  of  that  pro- 
fession.] 

"I,  Levi  Rodgers,  was  born  in  Guildhall,  Vt.,  May 
9,  1843.  My  father's  name  was  Levi,  as  was  also 
his  father's.  His  earliest  known  ancestor  in  this 
country  was  Stephen  Rodgers  of  Newburyport,  Mass., 
who  came  from  Wales,  and  is  believed  to  have  been 
a  descendant  of  John,  the  Martyr.  My  father's  mother 
was  Betsey  Stone,  sister  of  Rev.  Washington  Stone, 
the  father  of  Chester  A.  Arthur,  a  former  President. 
My  mother's  name  was  Mehitable  Barker  Carleton, 
a  descendant  of  Edward  Carleton  of  Rowley,  Mass. 

"After    graduation    from    Dartmouth,     I    became 

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principal  of  the  West  St.  Clair  Public  School  of  Cleve- 
land, O.,  holding  the  position  two  years.  I  entered 
Andover  Theological  Seminary  in  1868,  from  which  I 
graduated  in  187 1.  I  was  ordained  and  installed  pastor 
of  the  Congregational  Church  in  Claremont,  N.  H., 
Oct.  19,  1871,  President  Smith  preaching  the  ordina- 
tion sermon.  This  pastorate  continued  until  May, 
1880,  almost  nine  years,  and  is  said  to  have  been 
successful.  Certainly  those  years  cost  me  the  hardest 
study  and  work  I  ever  did.  The  Sunday  following 
my  dismission  I  was  invited  to  preach  as  a  candidate 
in  Franklin,  Mass.  I  preached  a  number  of  Sundays 
and  was  finally  called  to  settle  there.  I  accepted, 
but  subsequently  withdrew  my  acceptance.  In  the 
autumn  of  1880  I  began  to  supply  the  pulpit  of  the 
North  Church  in  Georgetown,  Mass.  I  was  settled 
as  pastor  there  the  following  May  and  ministered  to 
the  church  just  nine  years. 

"You  may  recall  Kendall's  'Chronicles,'  how  near 
the  end  of  our  college  life  Rodgers  had  'gone  cruising 
after  the  widow.'  It  was  a  successful  and  fortunate 
cruise.  The  widow  was  Mrs.  Ellen  S.  (Piatt)  Dissick. 
We  were  married  Aug.  6,  1866.  She  was  a  woman  of 
talent,  of  rare  executive  ability,  a  good  musician  and 
every  way  suited  for  her  position  as  a  minister's  wife. 
She  was  spared  to  me  only  until  Oct.  1,  1883.  She  was 
greatly  beloved  in  the  community  and  left  a  record  of 
large  influence,  lamented  by  all.    We  had  no  children. 

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"The  summer  of  1884  I  traveled  in  Europe  for 
several  months.  I  resumed  my  work  in  Georgetown  in 
September  and  continued  there  until  November,  1889, 
another  nine  years'  pastorate.  The  following  year 
I  was  without  charge,  only  supplying  vacant  pulpits 
here  and  there  as  I  had  opportunity.  I  was  invited 
to  supply  the  church  in  North  Greenwich,  Conn., 
and  first  preached  there  Nov.  16,  1890.  I  have  supplied 
continuously  from  that  day,  twenty-five  years,  lack- 
ing now  a  few  days. 

"The  principal  honor  which  has  fallen  to  me  is 
the  warm  affection  of  my  people  in  every  parish, 
which,  with  my  own  devotion  to  my  work  and  my 
determination  to  keep  pace  with  the  progressive 
spirit  of  the  age,  has  made  these  long  pastorates 
possible. 

uIn  North  Greenwich  I  first  met  Miss  Jessie  Cathe- 
rine Gilmore,  of  New  Haven.  We  were  married  July 
5,  1894.  With  her  came  a  great  blessing,  and  so,  after 
eleven  years,  my  home  was  re-established  and  my 
life  renewed. 

"This  is  but  a  brief  summary  of  my  life.  It  con- 
tains nothing  remarkable.  It  is  commonplace.  The 
ordinary  minister's  life  cannot  be  told  in  this  way. 
It  is  too  superficial  and  too  largely  external.  The 
real  life  is  far  otherwise,  especially  so  in  an  age  of 
change  and  progress  which  has  left  little  as  we  found 
it  in  the  domain  of  thought,  science,  or  religion,  ex- 

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cepting  the  fundamentals,  which  are  eternal.  I  have 
greatly  rejoiced  in  the  changes  and  progress  I  have 
seen  and  experienced.  I  have  rejoiced  most  of  all  in 
the  life  the  Master  came  to  give,  'life  abundantly.' 
Religion  to  me  is  relationship  to  God  and  to  our  fellow 
men.  In  this  relationship  is  the  life  which  is  life 
indeed.  Brothers!  I  cannot  tell  what  this  has  been  to 
me,  and  the  end  is  not  yet.  Without  it,  my  life  is 
empty;  with  it,  the  half  can  never  be  told." 

JOHN  JONES  SARGENT 
John  Jones  Sargent,  born  Oct.  5,  1844,  at  Canaan, 
N.  H.,  son  of  Hon.  Jonathan  E.  Sargent,  chief  justice 
of  the  New  Hampshire  Supreme  Court.  After  gradua- 
tion Mr.  Sargent  removed  to  Wisconsin,  dying  Oct. 
3,  1870,  at  Oshkosh,  almost  immediately  after  his 
admission  to  the  Bar. 

Owing  to  the  length  of  time  which  has  elapsed 
since  his  death,  his  family  connections  in  the  East 
being  deceased,  it  has  been  impossible  to  secure  de- 
tails of  his  career.  He  had  no  immediate  family,  but 
was  engaged  to  be  married  at  the  time  of  his  early 
and  regretted  demise. 

WALTER  ASHBEL   SELLEW 

Walter  Ashbel  Sellew,  born  Feb.  27,  1844,  at  Go- 
wanda,  N.  Y.  Married  June  4,  1873,  to  Jennie  R. 
Peters,    Mechanicsville,    N.    Y.     She    died    in    1895, 

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leaving  two  children:  Mrs.  Cora  R.  DeWitt,  of  James- 
town, N.  Y.,  and  Ada  V.  Layman,  of  Chicago,  111. 
He  was  married  the  second  time  to  Mrs.  Rebecca  E. 
Muse  of  Oil  City,  Pa.,  by  whom  he  has  had  no  children. 

After  graduation  he  spent  a  few  years  in  business 
in  a  manufacturing  plant  at  Gowanda.  In  1872  he 
entered  the  ministry  of  the  Free  Methodist  Church 
and  served  as  pastor  in  the  following  places:  Tona- 
wanda,  Dunkirk,  Gerry,  Allegany,  and  Buffalo,  all 
in  New  York.  For  two  years  he  served  as  principal 
of  a  Free  Methodist  seminary  at  Spring  Arbor,  Mich., 
a  coeducational  boarding  school.  Then  he  was  elected 
presiding  elder,  serving  the  following  districts:  Chau- 
tauqua, Allegany,  Buffalo,  Oil  City,  Bradford  and 
Pittsburgh.  He  was  elected  a  bishop  in  1898,  and 
has   recently  been   re-elected. 

He  has  published  pamphlets  on  religious  subjects, 
and  a  missionary  book  on  China  entitled,  "  Clara 
Leffingwell,  a  Missionary,"  which  owing  to  the  valu- 
able information  it  contained  as  to  conditions  then 
existing  in  China,  especially  as  to  the  " Boxer  Riots," 
has  had  an  extensive  sale  and  has  now  gone  into  the 
third  edition. 

He  holds  the  following  official  positions  in  the 
denomination  he  serves:  President  of  the  Board  of 
Trustees  of  the  General  Conference  of  the  Free  Meth- 
odist Church,  treasurer  and  member  of  the  managing 
board  of  Free  Methodist  Publishing  House,  president 

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of  the  General  Missionary  Board,  president  and 
treasurer  of  the  Gerry  Homes  for  Children  and  for 
Aged  People,  treasurer  of  the  A.  M.  Chesbrough 
Seminary,  at  North  Chili,  N.  Y.  Bishop  Sellew's 
home  address  is  68  Falconer  Street,  Jamestown,  N.  Y. 
His  official  address  is  at  the  denominational  head- 
quarters, 1 132  Washington  Boulevard,  Chicago,  111. 

As  president  of  the  Missionary  Board,  he  made  an 
inspection  trip  in  1905-6  around  the  world,  visiting 
mission  fields  in  Africa,  India,  China,  and  Japan, 
consuming  a  year  and  three  months.  He  also  again 
visited  China  and  Japan  during  the  famine  period 
in  China  in  191 1.  We  append  part  of  a  recent  edi- 
torial in  the  " Jamestown  Journal": 

BISHOP  SELLEW  HONORED 

"In  the  general  conference  of  the  Free  Methodist 
Church  now  in  session  in  Chicago  the  election  of 
bishops  came  up  Tuesday  when  Bishop  Walter  A. 
Sellew  of  this  city,  who  has  been  a  member  of  the 
Board  of  Bishops  of  this  church  for  many  years,  was 
re-elected  on  the  first  ballot,  receiving  an  almost 
unanimous  vote  of  the  delegates  to  the  conference. 

"Bishop  Sellew  has  been  a  powerful  factor  for  the 
advancement  of  the  interests  of  this  denomination. 
A  preacher  of  rare  power,  he  combines  with  his  fervor 
and  eloquence  the  advantages  of  much  more  than 
ordinary  business  ability.    He  was  a  successful  busi- 

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ness  man  before  he  entered  the  ministry.  He  was 
also  deeply  interested  in  educational  work,  and  his 
training  in  these  lines  has  made  him  specially  valuable 
to  the  denomination  to  which  his  life  is  devoted. 

"Years  ago  Bishop  Sellew  gave  his  home  and  farm 
at  Gerry,  N.  Y.,  to  the  Free  Methodist  Church  as  a 
home  for  dependent  children  and  for  the  aged  and 
helpless.  Since  then  the  Gerry  Homes  have  taken 
an  important  place  in  the  charity  and  philanthropic 
work  of  western  New  York,  made  possible  wholly 
through  the  generosity  of  this  man.  The  Free  Meth- 
odist Church  has  honored  itself  by  again  honoring 
him  in  this  election. " 

[A  characteristic  and  illuminating  communication  from  Bishop 
Sellew  will  be  found  in  the  Appendix.] 

HENRY  STODDARD  SHERMAN 
Henry  Stoddard  Sherman,  born  April  29,  1845,  at 
Mansfield,  O.  He  served  two  years  in  the  Civil 
War;  was  first  lieutenant  and  adjutant  of  the  120th 
Ohio  Volunteer  Regiment.  Married,  in  1873,  to 
Harriette  Benedict  of  Cleveland.  His  children  are: 
Mrs.  Sarah  Sherman  Carter;  Henry  Stoddard  Sher- 
man; George  Benedict  Sherman.  The  latter  son  died 
in  1904. 

Mr.  Sherman  moved  to  Cleveland  soon  after  gradua- 
tion and  became  head  of  the  legal  firm  of  Sherman, 
Hoyt  and  Dustin,  with  whom  he  practised  his  pro- 

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fession  until  his  death,  Feb.  24,  1893,  on  the  steamship 
"  Lahn,"  en  route  to  Europe  in  pursuance  of  business 
engagements,  being  survived  by  his  widow  and  two 
of  his  children,  as  above  noted. 

WILLIAM  BENJAMIN  TYNG   SMITH 

William  Benjamin  Tyng  Smith,  born  March  9, 
1842,  at  Claremont,  N.  H.,  third  son  of  Rev.  Henry 
Sumner  and  Mary  Hilliard  Smith.  Fitted  for  college 
at  Kimball  Union  Academy,  Meriden,  and  after 
graduation  at  Dartmouth  studied  divinity  at  the 
General  Theological  Seminary  in  New  York,  com- 
pleting the  course  in  1871. 

While  a  student  at  the  Seminary  he  was  ordained 
deacon  by  the  late  Bishop  Chase,  and  after  gradua- 
tion was  ordained  priest  by  the  late  Rt.  Rev.  Horatio 
Potter,  bishop  of  the  Diocese  of  New  York,  July  2, 
1871. 

His  early  training  for  active  life  began  by  teaching 
in  the  public  schools  of  Claremont.  After  graduation 
at  Dartmouth  he  became  principal  of  the  Fort  Wayne 
High  School,  Fort  Wayne,  Ind.,  and  afterwards  was 
employed  as  a  civil  engineer  on  the  Fort  Wayne  and 
Grand  Rapids  R.R. 

In  the  summer  of  1871,  Mr.  Smith  went  to  Europe 
for  a  tour  of  the  Old  World,  but  was  called  home 
by  the  fatal  illness  of  his  father,  whom  he  succeeded 
as  rector  of  Union  Church,  Claremont,  in  June,  1872. 

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In  1876  he  established  the  Mission  and  erected  the 
Church  of  St.  John  Baptist  at  Wolfboro  Junction, 
N.  H.,  and  two  years  later  accomplished  a  similar 
work  in  building  the  church  of  St.  Luke's  in  Woods- 
ville.  Was  rector  of  St.  James'  Church,  Keene,  in 
1884,  and  rector  of  Trinity  Church,  Tilton,  1886- 
88.  Married,  June  27,  1888,  Nellie  S.  Baker  of 
Charlestown,  N.  H.  Soon  after,  he  was  made  rector 
of  St.  Luke's  Church  in  Charlestown,  N.  H.,  resigning 
after  four  years'  service. 

Aside  from  his  duties  as  a  clergyman,  Mr.  Smith 
has  served  as  superintendent  of  schools  in  Claremont; 
as  deputy  for  the  General  Convention  of  the  Episcopal 
Church  for  several  terms,  and  as  director  of  the  Con- 
necticut River  National  Bank  and  of  the  Claremont 
National  Bank. 

While  a  portion  of  each  year  is  passed  in  travel 
and  their  summers  are  spent  at  their  camp  in  the 
Adirondacks,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Smith  continue  to  make 
Charlestown  their  permanent  home. 

JAMES  ALFRED   SPALDING 

James  Alfred  Spalding,  born  Aug.  20,  1846,  at 
Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  son  of  Lyman  Dyer  and  Susan 
Parker  Parrott  Spalding,  both  of  Portsmouth. 

After  leaving  Dartmouth  he  studied  at  Harvard 
Medical  School,  receiving  the  degree  of  M.D.  in 
1870.     Soon   after,   having  lost   his   hearing,   he   gave 

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up  general  practice  and  went  abroad,  studying  the 
eye  and  ear.  He  returned  in  1872,  practised  a  while 
in  Portsmouth,  removing  in  1873  to  Portland,  Me., 
where  he  is  practising  his  profession  at  the  present 
time. 

He  was  appointed  ophthalmic  and  aural  surgeon 
to  the  Maine  General  Hospital  in  1881,  resigning  in 
19 14  after  thirty-three  years  of  successful  professional 
work. 

Has  been  a  member  of  the  State  Medical  Society; 
American  Academy  of  Medicine;  American  Ophthal- 
mological  Society,  and  American  Academy  of  Oph- 
thalmology for  many  years.  He  is  one  of  the  editors 
of  the  "  Maine  Medical  Journal,"  is  active  as  a  lec- 
turer, translator,  and  medical  biographer.  Is  also 
devoted  to  music  and  to  foreign  languages,  with  which 
he  is  more  or  less  proficient  in  a  dozen  modern  and 
ancient  tongues. 

We  submit,  that  for  energy,  enterprise,  and  versa- 
tility, Dr.  Spalding  has  set  a  pace  not  likely  to  be 
exceeded  by  any  of  the  younger  graduates  of  Dart- 
mouth or  of  any  other  college.  We  append  a  partial 
list  of  his  many  publications,  medical  and  miscel- 
laneous: About  one  hundred  separate  original  papers  on 
the  eye  and  ear;  four  orations  on  medical  topics  de- 
livered before  medical  societies;  two  textbooks  on  eye 
diseases,  translated  from  the  German;  one  hundred 
papers  translated  from  the  German  for  Knapp's  "Ar- 

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chives  of  Ophthalmology  and  Otology";  many  public 
health  lectures  and  many  medical  biographies;  many 
medical  editorials  in  the  "  Maine  Journal  of  Medicine  "; 
besides  other  and  large  designs  in  preparation,  but  not 
yet  completed  for  publication. 

Dr.  Spalding  married  in  1882  Miss  Sarah  Chase 
Shepley,  daughter  of  Leonard  Downs  Shepley,  of 
Portland,  Me.  One  son  was  born  to  them,  who  died 
in  infancy. 

Mention  should  be  made  of  the  Doctor's  collections 
of  music,  and  also  of  books  on  music  and  on  Italy, 
of  which  he  has  perhaps  the  finest  private  library  in 
this  part  of  the  country. 

His  residence  and  address  is  627  Congress  Street, 

Portland,  Me. 

[Classmates  will  read  with  pleasure  Dr.  Spalding's  characteristic 
communication  in  the  Appendix,  supplementing  this  brief  ab- 
stract of  his  remarkably  successful  career.  We  can  only  say  that 
the  Appendix  would  easily  be  the  most  attractive  part  of  our 
Record  if  other  members  of  the  class  had  been  equally  com- 
municative of  personal  history.] 

CHARLES  QUINCY  TIRRELL 

Charles  Quincy  Tirrell  was  born  Dec.  10,  1844, 
at  Sharon,  Mass,  After  graduation  was  principal 
of  Peacham  Academy,  Vt.,  for  one  year,  and  for  two 
years  was  principal  of  the  St.  Johnsbury  High  School. 
Studied  law  in  the  office  of  Richard  H.  Dana,  Jr.,  and 
was  admitted  to  the  Suffolk  Bar  in  Boston  in  August, 
1870,  successfully  following  his  profession  to  the  time 

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of  his  death.  Married  in  1873  Mary  E.  Hollis  of 
Natick,  and  removed  to  that  place.  Was  a  member  of 
the  legislature  in  1871;  of  the  Massachusetts  Senate  in 
1880,  serving  two  terms;  presidential  elector  in  1888; 
member  of  the  57th,  58th,  59th  and  60th  Congresses, 
1 900-1910,  dying  in  that  office,  July  31,  1910,  leaving 
a  widow  and  one  son,  Arthur  Hollis  Tirrell,  his  father's 
private  secretary. 

Memorial  addresses  were  delivered  in  Congress, 
Feb.  12  and  25,  191 1,  from  which  we  quote,  the  fol- 
lowing being  taken  from  the  address  of  Mr.  Roberts 
of  Massachusetts  in  the  House  of  Representatives: 

"His  life  was  an  open  book;  his  virtues  writ  large 
and  his  failings  so  small  as  not  to  be  visible.  His 
statesmanship  was  of  the  highest  and  noblest  type, 
and  his  life  must  serve  as  an  inspiration  to  those  of 
us  to  whom  the  carrying  on  of  his  work  must  be  left; 
while  to  those  who  will  come  in  the  future  and,  looking 
over  the  former  membership  of  this  House,  shall 
seek  one  from  whose  work  they  may  draw  that  idea 
of  faithful  service  which  will  serve  as  a  standard 
to  them,  Charles  Q.  Tirrell  will  be  an  ideal." 

From  the  address  of  Mr.  Lodge  of  Massachusetts 
in  the  Senate: 

"He  was  an  upright,  high-minded  man,  and  his 
death  was  a  loss  to  his  state  and  to  the  House  of 
Representatives.  ...  To  me  his  death  is  not  only 
a  public  loss  but  a  personal  sorrow." 

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BENJAMIN  OSGOOD  TRUE 

Benjamin  Osgood  True,  born  Dec.  17,  1845,  at 
Plainfield,  N.  H.  Married  Aug.  18,  1874,  Pamelia  T. 
Smiley.  Children:  Harold  E.,  office  of  the  General 
Electric  Co.,  Lynn,  Mass.;  Helen  E.,  teacher,  died 
March,  1914;  Ruth  S.,  philanthropic  worker  in  Phila- 
delphia and  New  York,  and  later  with  the  Federal 
Children's  Bureau. 

Mr.  True  graduated  at  Rochester  Theological  Sem- 
inary in  1870;  was  pastor  at  Baldwins ville,  N.  Y., 
1 870-1 872;  visited  Europe  in  1872;  pastor  of  the 
First  Baptist  Church  at  Meriden,  Conn.,  1873-1879; 
in  Europe  and  the  East,  1 879-1 880;  pastor  of  the 
Central  Church,  Providence,  R.  I.,  1880-1881;  again 
in  Europe,  1889-1890;  professor  of  church  history 
at  Rochester  Theological  Seminary;  author  of  " Out- 
lines of  Church  History,"  printed  for  use  of  students, 
not  published;  received  the  degree  of  D.D.  at  the 
University  of  Rochester  in   1889. 

Rev.  Dr.  True  died  July  18,  1902,  at  Lakeport, 
N.H. 

HENRY  WARDWELL 

Henry  Wardwell,  born  April  28,  1840,  at  Ipswich, 
Mass.  Was  a  teacher  in  Dorchester,  now  a  part  of 
Boston,  from  1 866-1 869.  During  these  three  years 
he  read  law,  and  for  a  year  afterwards  was  in  the  law 
offices  of  Henry  W.  Paine  and  Robert  D.  Smith,  in 

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Boston.  Admitted  to  the  Suffolk  Bar  in  1870,  and 
had  an  office  in  Boston  until  1896. 

He  was  married  in  Peabody,  Oct.  6,  1870,  to  Sarah 
Osbprne  Fitch,  and  his  children  are:  Henry  Fitch, 
Catherine  Farley,  and  Mary.  Henry  Fitch  Ward- 
well  is  a  dealer  in  railroad  equipment  in  Chicago.  He 
married  Charlotte  Louise  Kenney  in  1905,  and  has  two 
children,  —  a  daughter,  born  November,  1906,  and  a 
son,  born  November,  191 2.  Catherine  Farley  Ward- 
well  is  unmarried  and  lives  with  her  parents  in  Salem. 
Mary  Wardwell  married  Grafton  Brookhouse  Perkins 
in  1908,  and  has  two  children,  —  a  son,  born  January, 
1913,  and  a  daughter,  born  January,  1915.  She  lives  in 
Roland  Park,  Md.,  a  suburb  of  Baltimore. 

Mr.  Wardwell  served  several  years  on  the  Peabody 
School  Committee;  was  counsel  for  the  town  for 
about  fifteen  years;  was  representative  from  the  town 
in  1879  and  in  1881. 

After  removing  to  Salem  he  served  in  the  city 
government,  in  the  Common  Council  in  1890,  and  in 
the  Board  of  Aldermen  in  1891. 

Was  appointed  a  justice  in  the  superior  court  in 
September,  1896,  serving  until  1898,  when  ill  health 
obliged  him  to  resign.  Since  then  he  has  continued  the 
practice  of  law  in  Salem,  his  law  business  being  very 
general,  including  substantially  all  branches  of  practice 
in  the  profession.  His  summing  up  in  his  report  of  his 
varied    activities    is    characteristically   pleasant,     "At 

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the  age  of  seventy-five  I  enjoy  a  good  measure  of 
health,  am  blessed  with  domestic  happiness,  and  have 
very  many  things  in  life  to  remember  with  satis- 
faction." 

Mr.  WardwelPs  address  is  13  Summer  Street,  Salem, 
Mass. 

[We  observe  with  pleasure,  as  a  proof  of  our  classmate's  con- 
tinued participation  with  undiminished  energy  and  ability  in 
the  duties  and  honors  of  his  profession,  that  Judge  Wardwell 
delivered  recently  an  eloquent  and  discriminating  memorial 
eulogy  on  Judge  Sayward  of  the  District  Court  of  Ipswich  before 
the  members  of  the  Essex  Bar  Association.] 

WALTER  ALBERT  WEBSTER 

Walter  Albert  Webster,  born  June  13,  1845,  at 
Chichester,  N.  H.  Married  Ellen  M.  Stiles  of  Con- 
cord, N.  H.,  on  Oct.  28,  1868.  Children:  John  W.; 
a  daughter  who  died  in  infancy;  Arthur  W.  Both 
sons  are  now  living. 

Mr.  Webster  served  in  the  navy  during  the  Civil 
War  as  third  assistant  engineer.  After  the  war  he  was 
connected  with  the  Fairbanks  Scale  Co.,  of  St.  Louis, 
Mo.  His  health  failing,  he  removed  to  Reading, 
Mass.,  where  he  died  Nov.  15,  1891. 

He  received  his  college  degree,  according  to  the 
General  Catalogue,  in  1870.  The  class  will  remem- 
ber his  presence  in  our  freshman  and  sophomore 
years.  His  enlistment  preventing  his  graduation  in 
1866,  the  degree  of  A.B.  was  extended  to  him  by  the 
college  in  1870,  as  remarked  above. 

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HENRY  WHITTEMORE 

Henry  Whittemore,  born  at  Hopkinton,  Mass., 
July  23,  1843.  Prepared  for  college  in  his  home  high 
school,  where  he  also  acted  as  instructor,  teaching 
arithmetic  and  algebra  classes,  entering  college  "in 
advance,"  as  he  claims,  through  the  kindness  and 
courtesy  of  the  faculty  of  Dartmouth. 

Here,  according  to  his  own  account,  he  fell  in  with 
the  best  bunch  of  fellows  who  ever  sat  on  a  college 
bench.  After  a  long  seesaw  between  studiousness 
and  jocosity,  he  was  permitted  to  graduate,  and, 
unlike  another  distinguished  alumnus,  Daniel  Webster, 
he  has  always  cherished  and  kept  track  of  his  diploma. 

One  of  the  events  of  his  college  life  which  he  looks 
back  upon  with  equal  pride  and  pleasure  is  his  short 
term  of  service  in  the  army.  In  company  with  Ward- 
well  and  Abbott  he  enlisted  in  the  5th  Massachusetts 
Volunteer  Militia.  Incidentally,  the  country  little 
realizes  the  loss  to  the  service  of  arms  it  sustained 
when  he  reluctantly  returned  to  civil  life. 

Along  with  this  military  furor  he  confesses  to  having 
been  tormented  with  a  hankering  for  medicine,  not 
to  swallow  it  as  a  dose,  but  to  inflict  it  upon  the  com- 
munity as  his  life  work.  Accordingly,  he  journeyed 
to  Manchester,  N.  H.,  and  camping  down  with  his 
celebrated  double,  Parker  Hunt,  he  enacted  for  a 
while  the  screaming  farce  of  a  medical  student, 
conveniently    staged   for   his   benefit  by  Drs.   W.   D. 

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Buck  and  Lyman  B.  Howe.  With  Dr.  Buck  he  had 
what  he  calls  daily  recitations,  and  finally  took  his 
first  and  only  course  of  lectures  at  Bowdoin  College 
Medical  School.  This  project  evaporating,  he  taught  in 
the  fall  and  winter  of  1868  and  the  same  seasons  in 
1869  and  1870  in  the  high  school  at  Mendon,  Mass. 
In  the  spring  of  1870  he  took  charge  of  the  high  school 
in  his  native  town,  where,  in  the  fall  of  1870,  he  was 
overtaken  by  ill  health  and  was  obliged  to  suspend 
teaching  for  two  or  three  years.  Strange  as  it  may 
seem  to  his  classmates,  the  cause  of  his  illness  was 
overwork.  Upon  recovery,  he  forsook  forever  his 
dream  of  the  pill  box  and  took  up  again  the  rod  and 
the  book  as  his  vocation. 

In  1874  he  took  charge  of  the  high  school  of  West- 
boro,  Mass.,  also,  in  1875,  assuming  the  superin- 
tendency  of  the  schools  of  the  town,  holding  this 
position  until  1883.  In  October  of  that  year  he  removed 
to  Waltham  as  superintendent  of  schools.  This  position 
he  retained  until  the  fall  of  1898,  when  he  became 
principal  of  the  oldest  state  normal  school  in  the 
country  at  Framingham,  Mass.,  which  position  he 
still  holds,  and  is  counted  one  of  the  most  successful 
instructors  and  disciplinarians  of  the  land. 

Mr.  Whittemore  married  in  Philadelphia,  in  1875, 
Clara  H.  Foss.  Three  children  have  blessed  their 
union:  Winifred,  Harvey,  and  Milton,  the  latter  dying 
in  infancy.    Winifred  was  a  student  in  Radcliffe  until 

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married  to  Arthur  P.  Teele  of  Waltham,  Harvard 
1895.  They  have  two  children,  a  girl  and  a  boy. 
Harvey  prepared  for  Dartmouth  at  Phillips  Academy, 
Andover,  graduating  at  Dartmouth  in  1906.  He 
married  Helen  Hardison  of  Wellesley,  whose  father 
is  a  Dartmouth  graduate.  They  have  one  child,  a 
daughter.  Illuminating  and  exhilarating  as  of  old, 
Mr.  Whittemore  remarks  that  he  is  three  times  a 
grandfather  and  adds  that  he  is  very  glad  of  it.  He 
also  says  he  is  glad  he  went  to  Dartmouth  and  that 
his  class  was  1866.  "God  bless  every  member,  both 
the  living  and  those  who  have  gone  to  the  silent 
majority"  is  his  characteristic  benediction. 

[It  should  be  remarked  that,  on  the  resignation  of  Chester 
Wright  Merrill  in  1906,  Mr.  Whittemore  was  elected  class  secre- 
tary and  that  he  has  filled  the  office  with  distinction  to  the  present 
time. 

Mr.  Whittemore  being  naturally  of  a  festive  and  jocose  dis- 
position, we  trust  he  will  pardon  any  flippancy  observed  in  our 
portrayal  of  his  very  serious,  important  and  exemplary  life  work.] 

GEORGE  W.  WING 

The  following  letter  is  self-explanatory: 

"  MONTPELIER, 

June  7,  1916. 
11  My  dear  Classmate: 

'  You  have  written  me  once  or  twice  asking  for  my 
autobiography  to  add  to  your  collection  of  the  Class 
of  1866  and  have  even  gone  to  the  point  of  calling  me 
dilatory  and  perhaps  the  matter  might  bear  out  that 

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construction;  but  the  time  is  close  at  hand  when  I 
expect  to  hear  the  result  of  your  investigation,  and 
perhaps  a  line  or  two  relating  to  the  salient  features 
of  my  quiet  career  might  interest  you  and  the  others, 
so  here  goes: 

"I  was  born  at  Plainfield,  Vt.,  Oct.  22,  1843.  My 
father  was  Joseph  Addison  Wing,  born  in  Montpelier 
in  1 8 10  and  my  mother  was  Samantha  Elizabeth 
(Heath)  Webster  of  Cabot.  I  do  not  recall  that  there 
was  any  tradition  of  any  convulsions  of  nature  at  the 
time  of  my  birth  and  nothing  particular  happened, 
except  that  it  snowed  that  day,  as  I  am  informed, 
and  there  was  good  sleighing  until  April  of  the  fol- 
lowing year.  I  attended  the  district  school,  and  in 
the  fall  of  1857  and  spring  of  1858  I  attended  the 
Barre  Academy.  In  June,  1858,  the  family  moved 
from  Plainfield  to  Montpelier,  where  they  have  since 
resided.  There  I  attended  the  Washington  County 
Grammar  School,  from  which  I  graduated  to  enter 
Dartmouth  in  the  fall  of  1862,  where  I  met  and  became 
acquainted  with  the  members  of  the  Class  of  1866. 
After  graduation  I  commenced  the  study  of  the  law 
in  my  father's  office.  From  1866-70  I  was  assistant 
state  librarian  and  also  had  a  position  as  clerk  in 
the  state  treasurer's  office.  I  was  admitted  to  the  Bar 
of  Washington  County  in  1868  and  later  to  the  Su- 
preme Court  and  the  United  States  Circuit  and  Dis- 
trict Courts  of  the  State  of  Vermont.    I  began  the 

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active  practice  of  the  law  in  1871  and  continued  in 
it  until  1904,  when  I  gradually  withdrew  from  busi- 
ness, having  in  1902  accepted  the  position  of  state 
librarian.  Before  Montpelier  became  a  city  I  held 
nearly  every  office  known  to  the  New  England  town 
system,  and  from  1890  to  1895  was  one  of  the  trustees 
and  for  three  years  president  of  the  corporation  of 
the  village  of  Montpelier.  Montpelier  became  a  city 
in  1895  and  I  was  the  first  mayor  of  the  city.  In  1882 
I  represented  Montpelier  in  the  legislature  in  the 
House  of  Representatives.  I  was  appointed  a  trustee 
of  the  State  Hospital  for  the  Insane  in  1893  and  con- 
tinued in  that  position  until  1906.  I  have  been  presi- 
dent of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  our  local  library, 
known  as  the  Kellogg-Hubbard  Library,  from  1895 
to  date.  I  belong  to  no  clubs,  and  the  only  fraternal 
organization  I  have  ever  been  a  member  of  is  the 
Masonic  fraternity.  I  have  been  a  33rd  degree  Mason 
since  1891.  I  have  presided  over  all  the  local  bodies 
and  have  been  Grand  Master  of  the  Grand  Lodge, 
Grand  High  Priest  of  the  Grand  Chapter,  Grand  Com- 
mander of  the  Grand  Commandery,  Grand  Patron  of 
the  Order  of  Eastern  Star,  and  still  retain  my  interest 
and  attend  upon  the  Grand  bodies  whenever  I  am  able 
to  do  so.  I  have  always  been  active  in  the  affairs  of 
the  town  and  city  where  I  have  resided  and  I  have 
resided  in  Montpelier  continuously  since  my  gradua- 
tion.    I    was    postmaster  at  Montpelier  from  1884-88, 

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being  appointed  by  President  Arthur  and  serving 
for  more  than  three  years  under  President  Cleve- 
land. Nothing  of  particular  interest  has  happened 
except  plenty  of  hard  work  with  a  good  deal  of  com- 
petition and  a  fairly  successful  outcome  as  the  result. 
I  am  now  practically  free  from  law  practice,  although 
I  have  a  few  matters  that  demand  my  attention 
occasionally.  I  was  married  first,  Dec.  I,  1869,  to 
Sarah  E.  Forbush,  who  died  April,  1871,  daughter 
of  Dr.  Orlando  P.  and  Millie  (Hendee)  Forbush; 
second,  married  Ida  I.  Jones,  daughter  of  Stephen 
F.  and  Caroline  P.  (Stone)  Jones,  who  died  in  February, 
1903.  On  Nov.  29,  1904,  I  married  Angeline  West 
Nickerson  of  Provincetown,  Mass.,  daughter  of  Lemuel 
and  Cinderilla  (Kilburn)  Nickerson.  The  only  child 
I  have  had  is  Sarah  F.  Wing,  born  March  22,  1871. 

"This  in  a  brief  way  gives  you  the  sum  total  of  my 
activities,  aside  from  the  thousand  and  one  things 
that  every  man  has  to  do  for  the  community  in  which 
he  lives,  and  in  each  there  is  grand  opportunity  to 
hold  office  not  attended  by  emoluments,  but  the  duties 
of  which  office  are  performed  as  a  part  payment  of 
his  civil  obligation.  If  you  can  make  anything  in- 
teresting out  of  this  biography  you  can  do  more  than 
I  am  able  to  do  as  I  look  back  over  the  fifty  years 
and  I  shall  be  more  than  pleased  to  exchange  it  for 
those  of  our  class  who  have  had  more  interesting 
episodes  in  their  careers. 

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"With  kind  regards  and  a  profuse  number  of  apol- 
ogies for  not  having  taken  the  time  to  do  this  earlier 
so  that  it  would  have  been  of  some  advantage  to  you, 
and  trusting  to  see  you  in  the  near  future,  I  am 

"  Yours  very  truly, 

"Geo.  W.  Wing." 

[Every  classmate  is  regretful  that  President  Wing's  intended 
address  at  Commencement,  in  response  to  the  customary  toast 
of  the  college  to  the  semi-centennial  class,  was  by  some  inad- 
vertence overlooked  on  the  program  of  the  presiding  officer. 
We  still  more  regret  that  our  esteemed  classmate  declines  to 
furnish  a  copy  for  our  Record.] 

LEWIS  LIONEL  WOOD 

Lewis  Lionel  Wood,  born  Feb.  10,  1842,  at  Calais, 
Vt.  Fitted  for  college  at  Morrisville  and  Barre,  Vt.; 
received  the  degree  of  A.M.  in  1869.  After  graduation 
he  was  superintendent  of  schools  at  East  Jackson, 
Mich.,  for  one  year.  He  then  studied  law  in  the  office 
of  Walker  and  Kent  and  in  the  office  of  Newberry  and 
Pond  at  Detroit;  entered  the  Law  School  at  Ann 
Arbor  and  received  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in  1869. 
The  same  year  he  entered  upon  the  practice  of  law 
in  Chicago,  where  he  has  been  engaged  in  legal  and 
financial  matters  up  to  the  present  time.  The  big 
fire  of  1 871  destroyed  his  office  and  law  library  and  he 
suffered  again  a  similar  loss  by  fire  in  1885.  He  was 
a  witness  of  the  former  conflagration  from  its  begin- 
ning throughout  its  entire  course. 

Mr.  Wood  was  married  in  1894  to  Jennie  C.  Clark 

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of  Chicago.  They  have  no  children.  His  residence 
for  more  than  twenty  years  has  been  at  3823  Indiana 
Avenue,  his  office  address  being  Room  804,  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
Building,  19  South  LaSalle  Street,  Chicago. 

He  masqueraded  as  our  prophet  in  1866.  He  fore- 
told happiness  to  every  member  of  the  class  with 
one  exception.  That  member  forgives  him,  and  comes 
up  smiling  with  the  rest  of  the  class  to  celebrate 
our  happy  pilgrimage  through  fifty  fortunate  and  not 
uneventful  years. 

MYLON  GUSTAVUS  WOOLEY 

Mylon  Gustavus  Wooley,  born  July  3,  1845,  at 
Putney,  Vt.  Mr.  Wooley's  history  since  graduation 
has  never  been  ascertained.  Was  a  member  of  the 
Department  of  Science  and  graduated  with  his  class, 
since  when  all  efforts  to  trace  him  have  been  unavailing. 


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Note  —  In  addition  to  the  general  acknowledg- 
ment to  the  class  for  assistance  in  preparing  these 
notices,  it  is  due  to  classmates  Hunt,  Lane,  Spalding, 
and  Whittemore  in  particular  for  painstaking  efforts 
to  assemble  material,  without  whose  help  the  very 
limited  success  of  the  undertaking  would  have  proved 
impossible  of  achievement. 

1866-1916 

"Deep,  underneath  the  surface  of  Today, 

Lies  Yesterday,  and  what  we  call  the  Past, 
The  only  thing  which  never  can  decay. 

"Things  bygone  are  the  only  things  that  last: 
The  Present  is  mere  grass,  quick-mown  away; 
The  Past  is  stone,  and  stands  forever  fast. ' ' 


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APPENDIX 


I.    Class  Secretary's  Report  of  Fiftieth  Anni- 
versary     IOI 

II.    Reception  of  Class  by  Alumni  Association, 

and  Speech  of  Hon.  Henry  C.  Ide  ....    107 
III.    Communications    from    Dr.    Pillsbury    and 

Bishop  Sellew        in 

IV.    "Metamorphosis     of     Spoddles,"     by     Dr. 

Spalding 115 

V.    "Skid's  Autobiography,"  by  the  Editor   .    .121 

VI.    Past  and  Present  —  a  Retrospect     ....    124 

VII.    Finale 127 


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THE  FIFTIETH  ANNIVERSARY 

Fifty  years,  unless  marked  in  their  flight  by  very 
significant  events  which  burn  their  impressions  in 
memory,  are  but  "a  watch  in  the  night,"  but  "a 
tale  that  is  told." 

The  classes  of  today,  as  they  move  steadily  forward 
in  their  history,  are  making  their  progress  towards 
their  fiftieth,  the  goal  of  all  anniversaries,  by  gather- 
ing in  spans  of  five,  ten,  or  more  years.  A  very  wise 
procedure,  which  should  have  the  sanction  and  sup- 
port of  all  outgoing  classes.  For  these  gatherings 
serve  to  fix  more  firmly  the  tie  that  binds,  and  the 
class  obtains  some  permanent  knowledge  of  itself. 
So,  when  this  anniversary  comes,  which  marks  so  im- 
portant an  era  in  the  life  of  the  class,  the  meeting 
together  of  its  members  will  not  have  the  semblance  of 
having  sprung  from  the  ground,  coming  from  Nowhere 
into  Somewhere. 

Some  of  our  number,  who  fifty  years  ago  left  the 
classic  shades  of  old  Dartmouth,  as  once  they  were 
designated,  going  into  the  wide,  wide  world  to  wrest 
a  living  from  its  reluctant  hand,  had  hardly  been 
back  to  pay  homage  to  their  Alma  Mater.  They, 
therefore,  had  seen  but  little  of  her  splendid  growth 
along  its  material  side.    And,  when  they  attempted 

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to  adjust  themselves  to  the  changed  conditions,  they 
could  not  make  a  start  until  they  had  begun  where 
they  left  off.  Soon  they  grasp  what  Tennyson  meant 
when  he  said,  "The  old  order  changeth,  yielding 
place  to  new."   They  then  recite  with  Longfellow: 

"This  is  the  place.   Stand  still,  my  steed! 
Let  me  review  the  scene, 
And  summon  from  the  shadowy  past 
The  forms  that  once  have  been." 

(The  steed  in  the  above  now  reads  "auto.") 

And,  when  the  forms  do  appear,  having  enough  of 
the  original  in  them  to  betray,  for  the  most  part, 
their  identity,  the  new  gives  place  to  the  old,  and 
the  reunion  is  complete;  and  everybody  is  happy 
except  the  men  who  could  not  come.  Thus  the  Class 
of  1866  came  together,  and  under  the  spell  of  memory, 
which  is  the  immortal  part  of  our  earthly  existence, 
they  renewed  their  youth,  as  spent  at  Dartmouth 
more  than  fifty  years  ago. 

Fifteen  hearty  veterans,  out  of  a  possible  nineteen, 
whom  God  had  spared  to  live  on  "earth's  green 
fields,"  came  from  the  north,  the  south,  the  east, 
and  the  west.  And  here  they  are:  Samuel  P.  Atkinson, 
Champaign,  111.;  James  H.  Chapman,  New  York; 
Nathan  P.  Hunt,  Manchester,  N.  H.;  Henry  Clay 
Ide,  St.  Johnsbury,  Vt.;  John  Edgar  Johnson,  Phila- 
delphia,  Pa.;    Henry  A.   Kendall,   Somerville,   Mass.; 

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LEWIS  LIONEL  WOOD 


WALDEMER  OTIS 


THE  THREE   LIVING  MEMBERS  OF  THE  CLASS  WHO  WERE  NOT  PRESENT 
AT  OUR  FIFTIETH  ANNIVERSARY 


THE    CLASS    OF     1866 

Charles  E.  Lane,  Lombard,  111.;  Chester  W.  Merrill, 
Cincinnati,  O.;  George  H.  Pillsbury,  Lowell,  Mass.; 
Levi  Rodgers,  Greenwich,  Conn.;  Walter  A.  Sellew, 
Jamestown,  N.  Y.;  William  B.  T.  Smith,  Charlestown, 
N.  H.;  James  A.  Spalding,  Portland,  Me.;  George  W. 
Wing,  Montpelier,  Vt.;  Henry  Whittemore,  Framing- 
ham,  Mass.  The  following  members  of  the  class  were 
not  present:  Henry  Wardwell,  Salem,  Mass.;  Waldemar 
Otis,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.;  Lewis  L.  Wood,  Chicago,  111.; 
and  Thomas  P.  Kingsley,  Cleveland,  O. 

There  was  also  present  a  man  who  was  once  con- 
nected with  the  class,  a  royal  fellow  and  a  good  class 
man,  Harrison  Hume  of  Washington,  Me.,  who  later 
in  his  life  was  honored  with  the  degree  of  Master 
of  Science,  worthily  bestowed.  A  worthy  company, 
present  and  past;  a  company  which  has  brought 
honor  to  the  college  and  increased  its  revenues. 

What  have  they  been  doing  these  fifty  years? 
Five  have  been  doing  God's  work,  directly;  business 
absorbed  the  attention  of  five;  law  found  something 
for  five  to  do,  just  the  form  this  "something"  assumed, 
well,  the  boys  themselves  give  no  hint  of  it;  two  were 
enrolled  as  disciples  of  ^Esculapius;  one  has  been  an 
engineer,  having  a  hand  in  many  of  the  big  things 
of  the  day;  and  the  last,  and  we  hope  not  the  least, 
has  been  a  teacher. 

But  they  have  not  always  followed  strictly  the 
line  of  work  as  it  is  ordinarily  found  in  the  professions 

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as  chosen.  One  of  the  preachers  broke  the  lines  and 
became  a  bishop;  another  of  these  messengers  of  God 
did  his  Master's  work  by  laying  on  the  lap  of  his 
Alma  Mater  many  a  generous  gift.  His  donations 
for  the  establishment  of  the  Outing  Club,  to  the 
college,  and  to  the  college  church,  testify  to  his 
generosity  and  his  loyalty.  If  " Bully"  Sanborn  were 
here,  he  would  say  that  these  gifts  would  last  until 
the  last  syllable  of  recorded  time.  And  there  is  one 
who  is  written  in  the  "Register  of  Alumni"  as  a 
lawyer.  Early  in  life  he  took  the  broadest  view  of  that 
noble  profession,  and  ended  his  career  in  the  service 
which  he  honored,  as  minister  plenipotentiary  at 
Madrid.  Enough  said.  It  would  be  invidious  to  make 
comparisons,  and  there  would  be  no  end  to  it;  and 
besides  the  fellows  would  not  like  it.  For  what  the 
fellows  don't  like,  doesn't  go.  The  great  event  of  the 
reunion  was  the  presentation  by  Kendall  of  the  class 
histories,  which  had  been  prepared  by  him  during 
the  preceding  year.  It  was  the  summing  up  in  a 
brief  period  of  the  events  which  had  crowded  to  the 
full  the  fifty  years  of  the  lives  of  those  who  were 
present  and  absent.  Was  there  any  event  just  like 
it  in  the  history  of  fiftieth  anniversaries?  In  a 
masterly  way,  the  historian  traced  the  events  of 
each  man's  life  into  one  harmonious  whole  —  a  com- 
posite stream. 


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"And  when  the  stream 

Which  overflowed  the  soul  was  passed  away, 
A  consciousness  remained  that  it  had  left 

Deposited  upon  the  silent  shore 
Of  memory,  images  and  precious  thoughts 

That  shall  not  die,  and  cannot  be  destroyed." 

At  dinner  the  reunion  reached  its  height.  For  on 
the  morrow,  the  world,  its  cares,  made  a  raid  upon 
the  group  and  the  ranks  were  broken. 

THE  AFTERMATH 

It  was  reported  in  the  newspapers  that  '66  had  won 
the  cup  given  for  the  greatest  per  cent  of  attendance 
for  class  reunions.  As  far  as  we  now  know,  no  intima- 
tion has  reached  the  secretary  that  this  is  true.  Should 
he  not  have  this  information? 

At  the  dinner,  John  Edgar,  for  fear  the  richness 
of  the  repast  might  have  a  dire  influence  upon  the 
partakers,  then  and  there  declared  that  on  the  morrow 
he  would  give  to  the  college  five  thousand  dollars  as 
an  example  for  other  classes  to  imitate  when  they  cele- 
brate their  fiftieth  anniversary.  And  the  class  went  on 
record  in  a  hearty  manner,  as  appreciating  his  loyalty 
and  their  belief  in  him  as  a  man  and  brother.  Some  of 
the  fellows  went  to  see  Amherst  trim  Dartmouth  at 
baseball.  History  repeats  itself.  We  did  not  see  Bishop 
Sellew  in  this  crowd.  But  it  should  be  known  that  the 
present   game   of  baseball   was    introduced   to   Dart- 

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mouth  mainly  through  the  instrumentality  of  the 
Bishop.  There  was  a  game  of  baseball  played  at 
Hanover  in  the  summer  of  1866  with  Amherst.  And 
Amherst  beat  us.  Sellew  and  Chapman  played  in 
that  game.  But  that  had  nothing  to  do  with  our 
being  beaten. 

Why  the  college  authorities  did  not  call  upon  '66 
to  respond  to  a  sentiment  offered  by  the  presiding 
officer  at  the  alumni  dinner  in  honor  of  '66,  "no  feller 
knows."  It  has  been  stated  that  it  was  not  on  the 
program  which  the  presiding  officer  had  given  him. 

And  so  "the  shadow  hath  moved  o'er  the  dial  plate 
of  time,"  and  the  fiftieth  anniversary  for  1866  hath 
come  and  gone. 

But  we  are  not  ready  to  say  with  Tennyson,  "Old 
men  must  die,  or  the  world  would  grow  mouldy,  would 
only  breed  the  past  again."  Rather  we  say  with  the 
Psalmist,  "So  teach  us  to  number  our  days  that  we 
may  apply  our  hearts  unto  wisdom." 

And  we  say  to  the  old  Dartmouth  and  to  the  new, 
"Peace  be  within  thy  walls  and  prosperity  within 
thy  palaces." 

Henry  Whittemore,  Secretary. 


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CLASS   RECEPTION 

In  accordance  with  custom,  the  Class  of  1866  on  the 
fiftieth  anniversary  of  its  graduation  was  received 
by  the  Alumni  Association  at  its  annual  meeting  in 
College  Hall,  President  Jenks  of  the  Association  in- 
viting the  members  of  our  class  to  come  forward 
upon  the  platform,  where  they  were  cordially  received 
by  the  President  and  the  Alumni.  The  occasion  was 
not  one  for  extended  speech-making,  which  occurs  at 
the  alumni  banquet  on  the  following  day,  but  Judge 
Ide  for  the  class  briefly  responded  to  the  greeting  of 
President  Jenks,  substantially  as  follows: 

"In  behalf  of  the  Class  of  1866  I  thank  you,  Mr. 
President,  and  you,  Gentlemen  of  the  Alumni,  for  the 
cordial  reception  which  you  have  given  to  us.  Our 
class  was  one  of  the  smaller  ones  at  the  time  of  gradua- 
tion, the  whole  college  having  been  depleted  by  the 
call  of  our  country  for  the  service  of  its  young  men 
in  support  of  the  Union  during  the  Civil  War.  But 
that  our  interest  in  the  college  and  in  one  another  has 
never  ceased  is  demonstrated  by  the  fact  that  we  have 
present  here  sixteen  out  of  nineteen  living  members 
of  our  class,  who  have  come  from  widely  scattered 
regions  of  our  country  to  renew  the  old  acquaint- 
anceships, to  recount  to  one  another  the  unforgotten 

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incidents  of  college  life,  and  the  subsequent  experiences 
of  the  individual  members,  and  to  demonstrate  anew 
our  loyalty  to  our  Alma  Mater.  Time  has  made  havoc 
in  our  ranks,  as  it  does  in  those  of  every  class  which 
has  been  fifty  years  out  of  college,  but  that  the  old 
spirit  remains  is  apparent  from  the  fact  that  we  prob- 
ably have  gathered  together  today  a  larger  percentage 
of  our  living  classmates  than  has  any  other  class. 
We  claim  the  cup. 

"  Our  class  has  demonstrated  its  loyalty  to  the  old 
college  in  a  practical  way.  Though  not  many  of  its 
members  are  endowed  with  great  riches,  yet  Otis, 
who  is  not  able  to  be  present  today,  has  contributed 
to  the  college  a  substantial  fund,  the  income  of  which 
is  to  be  devoted  to  the  development  of  oratory,  and 
Tirrell,  who  is  no  longer  living,  has  likewise  by  his 
will  made  a  substantial  gift  to  the  college  endowment. 
Others  have  given  smaller  sums,  but  one  of  our  number, 
who  belongs  to  the  most  lucrative  of  all  professions, 
the  Rev.  J.  Edgar  Johnson,  has  probably  con- 
tributed more  than  any  other  graduate  of  Dartmouth 
to  the  development  and  stimulation  and  encourage- 
ment of  out-of-door  sports  and  the  physical  welfare 
of  students  of  Dartmouth  now  and  hereafter.  He 
has  given  abundantly  and  generously  in  thought  and 
in  money  for  the  accomplishment  of  these  high  objects, 
and  I  have  great  pleasure  in  presenting  him  as  an 
exhibit    for   our   class.     [At   this   point   Mr.    Johnson 

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was  unwillingly  dragged  forth  by  Mr.  Ide  and  received 
with  uproarious  applause  by  the  alumni.]  I  have  not 
presented  Mr.  Johnson  and  the  rest  of  the  class  as 
museum  specimens,  preserved  for  fifty  years  and  now 
brought  out  for  exhibition  as  curios,  but  as  live,  fairly 
vigorous  specimens  of  Dartmouth's  more  mature 
sons.  Take  a  good  look  at  them,  for  you  will  never 
have  another  chance. 

"  I  need  not  here  enlarge  upon  the  new  Dartmouth, 
its  new  and  enormously  enlarged  equipment  and 
facilities,  its  splendid  buildings,  its  large,  able  and 
devoted  faculty,  its  throngs  of  eager  students.  But 
of  the  old  Dartmouth  there  is  not  now  present  one 
of  the  faculty  and  trustees  of  my  day,  nor  is  there 
but  one  of  them  now  in  the  land  of  the  living.  Last 
week  I  attended  the  graduating  exercises  of  the  St. 
Johnsbury,  Vt.,  Academy.  The  Rev.  Henry  Fair- 
banks, long  professor  and  long  trustee  of  Dartmouth, 
arose  to  invoke  the  divine  blessing  on  that  occasion. 
Nearly  ninety  years  of  age,  with  snow-white  hair 
and  attenuated  form,  he  seemed  the  reincarnation  of 
one  of  the  patriarchs  of  old,  and  his  venerable  appear- 
ance and  high  character  and  reverential  devotion 
caused  a  thrill  through  the  audience  as  of  a  benedic- 
tion from  a  saint.  It  was  to  me  a  great  connecting 
link  with  our  Dartmouth  of  half  a  century  ago. 

"  On  looking  over  this  audience  I  see  comparatively 
few  here  who  are  older  than  we,  but  to  these  older 

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graduates  we  say:  Good  evening.  May  your  remain- 
ing years  be  happy  and  useful,  filled  with  the  recollec- 
tion of  good  deeds,  and  may  the  twilight  of  life  steal 
so  gradually  over  you  that  you  shall  never  know 
when  the  night  has  come. 

"To  you  who  are  the  younger  graduates,  we  say: 
Good  morning.  May  the  whole  day  that  is  before 
you  be  filled  with  works  of  such  usefulness  that  the 
college  shall  be  proud  of  your  achievements,  and 
your  own  consciences  shall  approve  all  that  you  have 
wrought,  and  the  country  and  the  world  be  better 
that  you  have  lived  therein. 

"I  thank  you,  Mr.  President,  and  you,  Gentlemen 
of  the  Alumni,  for  the  kind  and  cordial  welcome  that 
you  have  given  us." 


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GEORGE  H.   PILLSBURY 

The  history  of  my  life  is  much  like  Mark  Twain's 
Diary:    "Got  up  —  washed  —  went  to  bed." 

I  was  born  in  Lowell,  Mass.,  June  8,  1843,  attended 
the  public  schools,  graduating  from  the  classical 
course  in  1862,  in  the  fall  of  which  year  I  entered 
Dartmouth  College.  After  graduation  I  at  once  en- 
tered the  Harvard  Medical  School,  receiving  my 
diploma  in  1869.  During  the  last  year  of  my  medical 
course,  I  was  interne  at  the  Chelsea  Marine  Hospital 
at  Chelsea,  Mass.  Leaving  there  I  went  to  Paris  for 
about  a  year,  taking  a  postgraduate  course  at  the 
Ecole  de  Medecine.  Returning,  I  at  once  opened  an 
office  in  Lowell  and  have  continued  in  active  practice 
ever  since. 

Obstetrics  and  the  diseases  of  women  and  children 
have  been  the  larger  part  of  my  work.  Incidentally 
I  may  mention  the  fact  that  I  have,  for  better  or 
worse  and  wholly  without  their  consent,  ushered  into 
the  world  nearly  three  thousand  children.  During  the 
last  few  years  I  have  withdrawn  from  the  more  ex- 
acting and  laborious  duties  of  my  profession,  though 
still  in  the  harness. 

June  5,  1872,  I  married  Mary  Augusta  Boyden  of 

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DARTMOUTH    COLLEGE 

Lowell,  Mass.,  the  magnum  opus  of  my  life.  We  have 
been  blessed  with  four  children:  Boyden  H.,  who 
graduated  from  Dartmouth  in  '95  and  from  the  Har- 
vard Medical  School  four  years  later,  and  is  now  practis- 
ing in  Lowell  with  distinguished  success.  George  B., 
who  graduated,  at  the  head  of  his  class,  from  the 
Military  Academy  at  West  Point  in  1900  and  is  now 
a  Major  C.  E.  U.  S.  A.  Henry  Church  Pillsbury, 
Dartmouth  '02,  and  from  the  Harvard  Medical  School. 
He  is  now  Captain  M.  C.  U.  S.  A.  Mary  B.  Pillsbury 
graduated  from  Vassar  College  in  19 10.  She  has 
been  librarian  in  the  University  Libraries  in  Chicago 
and  now  fills  the  same  position  at  Vassar. 

Blessed  I  certainly  have  been  in  my  wife,  my  children 
and  my  reputation  in  the  community  in  which  I  have 
passed  all  my  life.  I  have  knocked  about  the  world 
quite  a  bit,  on  the  continent  and  in  the  Far  East, 
but  that  is  neither  here  nor  there. 

I  await  the  final  graduation  with  equanimity. 


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BISHOP   SELLEW 

During  my  college  life  I  was  very  irreligious.  I 
had  no  thought  of  God,  nor  of  my  soul,  nor  of  the 
future  beyond  this  life.  I  cared  for  none  of  these 
things.  The  whole  strength  of  my  desire  was  to  obtain 
an  education  in  order  to  advance  my  temporal  in- 
terests and  to  secure  that  share  of  money  and  honors 
which  I  thought  was  coming  to  me.  I  was  also  greatly 
taken  up  with  sports  and  the  pleasures  of  life,  intent 
on  having  a  good  time  while  living  it. 

In  the  later  part  of  the  senior  year,  however,  I 
became  much  concerned  about  my  soul  and  my  rela- 
tions to  God.  By  the  operation  of  the  Spirit  of  God 
I  was  brought  under  deep  and  powerful  conviction 
for  my  sins  and  on  account  of  my  irreligious  life.  I 
had  a  great  struggle  in  my  mind  as  to  whether  my 
life  should  be  given  to  serving  myself  and  my  selfish 
interests,  or  should  be  fully  devoted  to  the  service 
of  God. 

This  period  of  indecision  lasted  several  weeks,  but 
culminated  in  an  all-night  struggle  when  I  was  en- 
abled to  fully  yield  my  all  to  God  and  for  His  service 
and  I  was  there  and  then  thoroughly  converted. 
It  was  literally  a  radical  change  in  every  phase  of  my 

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life,  and  such  a  change  in  my  heart  that  the  service 
of  God,  which  I  had  supposed  would  be  a  duty,  and 
more  or  less  a  burden,  became  a  delight.  It  was  this 
that  turned  me  towards  the  ministry  of  the  Gospel, 
and  has  enabled  me  these  fifty  years  to  live  in  peace, 
in  patience,  and  in  purity  in  my  family,  among  my 
neighbors,  and  in  the  world.  There  has  never  been 
the  slightest  regret  at  the  choice  I  made  in  my  room 
that  night,  but  increasing  satisfaction  as  the  years 
have  gone  by. 

I  might  also  say  that  we  have  no  politics  in  the 
denomination  to  which  I  belong,  and  that  I  have  never 
made  any  effort,  directly  or  indirectly,  to  obtain  or 
retain  any  official  position  in  that  church. 


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SPODDLES 

DR.   JAMES  A.   SPALDING 

If  there  had  been  any  speech-making  at  our  Class 
Dinner  in  June,  I  should  have  said  something  to  this 
effect : 

My  sleep  for  many  years  has  been  perfect,  but  it 
happened  a  few  days  before  our  reunion  that  I  was 
restless  one  morning  about  three  o'clock  and  awoke 
with  the  above  words  on  my  lips.  I  jumped  up,  wrote 
them  down  on  a  bit  of  paper,  and  soon  was  fast  asleep 
again. 

When  I  left  Dartmouth,  I  did  not  care  for  study 
or  languages,  I  could  not  write  an  essay  on  any  topic, 
nor  could  I  speak  a  word  in  public.  Now,  at  nearly 
seventy,  I  find  that  I  have  studied  thousands  of 
books,  that  I  am  using  in  one  way  and  another  many 
languages  daily,  that  I  can  write  essays  worth  print- 
ing, and  that  I  can  talk  in  public  without  hesitation. 

Perhaps  what  follows  may  make  plain  the  change 
in  my  character.  When  Joe  Neal  and  I  walked  these 
streets,  he  made  me  keep  at  his  right  hand  as  his  left 
ear  was  deaf,  and  I  liked  to  have  him  at  my  left  hand 
as  my  right  ear  was  deaf.  Hardly  had  I  reached  the 
last  year  in  the  Harvard  Medical  School,  when  I  lost 

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DARTMOUTH    COLLEGE 

the  hearing  of  my  good  ear.  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes 
advised  me  to  study  abroad  on  the  eye  and  ear,  and 
I  spent  two  years  in  Europe  perfecting  myself  in  those 
studies,  and  in  French  and  German.  I  practised  a 
while  in  Portsmouth,  but  the  field  was  small,  and  yet 
my  deafness  hindered  me  in  deciding  where  to  settle. 
I  hated  to  say  that  I  was  deaf,  and  I  hated  to  carry 
a  horn  to  hear  with.  An  oculist  happening  to  die 
in  Portland  in  1873,  I  moved  there  and  have  remained 
for  life. 

The  first  seven  years  in  Portland  were  years  of 
poverty,  because  I  did  not  understand  how  to  gather 
patients  about  me.  My  only  idea  was  to  get  rid  of 
them  as  fast  as  I  could.  During  this  time  I  earned 
as  much  as  one  dollar  and  a  half  a  day.  At  the  end  of 
that  time  came  a  windfall  of  about  nine  thousand 
dollars.  I  have  since  then  never  cared  for  money, 
and  I  do  not  know  to  this  day  just  what  I  possess, 
except  that  there  is  always  a  good  balance  to  my 
credit  in  the  bank. 

During  those  seven  years,  and  very  lean  ones  they 
were,  too,  I  lived  as  cheaply  as  I  could,  and  studied 
as  never  before.  Unable  to  buy  medical  books,  I 
borrowed  them,  French  and  German,  and  condensed 
them  into  textbooks  with  the  latest  ideas.  I  went 
into  many  languages  for  the  purpose  of  getting  medical 
advances  at  first  hand  and  began  to  write  papers 
on  medicine,   and  to  speak  in  the  medical  meetings. 

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Then  came  two  lectures  for  money,  on  "Mirabeau 
and  "Cagliostro,"  in  the  Carlylean  style,  and  de- 
livered from  memory.  I  worked,  too,  for  medical 
magazines  and  translated  for  them  from  the  German, 
mostly,  several  thousand  pages,  if  three  textbooks 
and  three  novels  are  included  in  the  list.  For  thirty 
years  and  more  I  indexed  a  magazine  on  the  eye  and 
ear,  a  thousand  pages  each  year,  and  in  that  way 
the  year's  progress  passed  before  my  mind. 

During  this  time,  also,  I  read  every  word  of  Carlyle, 
condensed  his  " Frederick"  into  a  manuscript  of  five 
hundred  pages,  his  "Cromwell"  into  one  of  a  hundred 
and  followed  his  advice  of  doing  the  work  that  lies 
nearest  at  hand.  In  this  way,  by  sticking  to  medicine 
chiefly,  I  gradually  obtained  a  good  practice  and  now, 
near  seventy  I  am  advising  the  grandchildren  of  some 
of  my  earliest  patients. 

Now  as  to  languages,  it  is  easy  to  decry  Latin  and 
Greek,  and  I  am  inclined  to  believe  that  they  are  of 
less  value  than  of  old,  while  taught  as  dead  languages. 
If  taught  as  living  languages,  they  have  great  value. 
For  thirty-three  years  I  walked  the  wards  of  the  Maine 
General  Hospital,  and  I  never  found  a  better  tonic  for 
sick  foreigners  than  to  say  to  them  in  their  native 
tongue:  "How  are  you  today?"  "Did  you  pass  a  good 
night?"  "Do  you  have  much  pain?"  "Your  doctor 
says  you  are  much  better";  "I  see  that  you  are  getting 
better  daily."   Such  phrases  as  those  in  Greek,  Italian, 

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Spanish,  Portuguese,  and  even  in  Welsh,  Armenian, 
and  Irish,  are  easy  to  master.  It  surprises  you,  how- 
ever, when  you  say  to  an  Arab,  "Sba  alkheir  asidi," 
to  have  him  kiss  your  hands  and  your  feet. 

"Yes;  but  how  can  you  use  Latin  in  these  days?" 
I  once  spent  six  hours  on  the  road  between  Vienna 
and  Venice  talking  Latin  on  things  in  general,  with 
an  Austrian  army  officer.  It  was  a  revelation  to  me 
of  what  Latin  could  do.  Later  on  I  had  as  a  patient 
a  blind  woman  who  had  no  English,  nor  did  her  brother 
speak  English.  But  he  knew  Latin.  I  told  him  in 
Latin,  standing  at  his  sister's  side  at  the  operating 
table,  to  tell  her  in  her  language  to  open  or  close 
her  eyes,  to  look  to  the  right,  left,  up  or  down,  as 
needed  for  an  operation.  I  made  that  patient  see, 
more  successfully,  by  my  command  of  Latin  as  a  living 
language,  I  believe,  than  I  could  otherwise  have  done. 

At  the  end  of  my  sixty-ninth  year  I  am  glad  to  think 
of  the  good  that  I  have  done  to  thousands  of  patients, 
but  I  regret  that  owing  to  my  deafness  I  did  not 
have  a  chance  to  do  more.  Many  people,  I  am  sorry 
to  say,  like  to  run  down  defectives,  and  prevent  them 
from  earning  a  living.  If  I  had  only  learned  earlier 
that  the  way  to  fame  in  medicine  is  to  listen  to  the 
nonsense  talk  of  patients,  to  make  them  come  when 
there  is  no  need,  to  feed  them  with  hope  and  lies, 
I  should  have  been  more  famous  and  made  more 
money, 

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It  is  a  pleasure  to  be  able  to  speak  well  in  public, 
on  notice  given,  or  to  be  able,  after  a  hasty  look  at 
a  manuscript  which  has  just  been  read,  to  speak  off- 
hand and  open  the  topic  for  discussion.  It  is  a  great 
pleasure  and  satisfaction  to  have  at  your  command 
the  entire  eye-and-ear-knowledge  of  the  world  in  the 
original  language  in  which  it  was  written,  instead  of 
awaiting  translations  into  English.  It  is  a  gift  to  be 
able  to  compose  an  oration  which  shall  hold  the  atten- 
tion of  an  audience  for  an  hour,  and  it  is  a  delight  to 
follow  in  church  the  ritual  of  the  Book  of  Common 
Prayer  and  the  Lessons  of  the  Day  in  many  languages. 

Amongst  my  other  joys  of  living  have  been  my 
music,  both  for  playing  upon  the  piano  and  for  read- 
ing from  the  lives  of  composers  and  their  works; 
the  playing  almost  daily  of  a  little  game  of  billiards 
in  which  some  skill  still  remains  to  me,  with  steady 
hands  and  nerves;  the  looking  over  my  postage  stamp 
collection;  the  thinking  of  my  beloved  Italy  and 
in  reading  the  famous  "  Letters  of  Cassiodorus,"  and 
that  wonderful  book  "The  Invaders  of  Italy,"  by 
Hodgkin;  the  planting  every  autumn  of  variegated 
tulips  for  the  spring,  and  in  due  season  to  have  them 
in  my  windows,  a  delight  for  passers-by;  the  bedding 
before  my  house  each  year  of  the  choicest  hyacinths 
in  the  world,  for  the  benefit  of  the  city;  and  the  keeping 
for  years  of  a  diary  and  peeping  into  it  once  in  a  while 
to   see   what    had    occurred   before.     Last  of    all   my 

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pleasures  I  recall  three  voyages  to  Europe,  and  a 
most  delightful  journey  to  that  isle  of  bliss,  Jamaica, 
in  the  Spanish  Main.  Is  there  anything  more  beauti- 
ful in  all  the  world  than  the  view  of  the  Blue  Moun- 
tains of  that  blissful  island  from  the  harbor  of  Port 
Antonio!  Now,  boys,  in  addition  to  all  these  crowded 
thoughts,  our  Record  mentions  the  variety  of  the 
work  that  I  have  accomplished,  and  to  that  those 
who  care  for  the  curious  metamorphosis  from  a  thought- 
less boy  to  a  studious  man  may  be  referred,  for  proof 
of  what  I  have  here  suggested  —  that  of  all  the  natural 
changes  of  character  occurring  to  the  boys  of  '66, 
there  has  hardly  been  one  more  remarkable  than  that 
which  happened  to  "Spoddles"  on  his  way  through 
the  world. 


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My  arch-enemy,  Whittemore,  getting  gay  with  me, 
endeavoring  to  get  a  foolish  rise  out  of  me,  has  per- 
suaded me  to  jot  down  the  history  of  the  only  incon- 
sequential member  of  the  class. 

I  hope  the  boys  will  inflict  a  suitable  punishment 
on  Whitty  —  anything  short  of  imprisonment  for  life 
will  be  agreeable  to  me,  as  a  fitting  penalty  for  his 
bumptious  impudence. 

But  to  the  business  in  hand:  It  is  human,  I  suppose, 
to  conceal  our  weaknesses,  and  that  is  why  the  less 
said  the  better  when  it  comes  to  particularizing  my 
erratic  orbit  through  half  a  century. 

A  dreamer  has  no  business  to  be  born  or,  at  least, 
is  born  at  his  own  risk  among  energetic  and  practical 
men  of  affairs.  If  he  manages  to  reach  his  three  score 
and  ten  out  of  debt,  jail  and  hospital  he  scores  a 
success  in  his  small  sphere  of  action. 

That,  glory  be!  is  about  my  status  today,  as  near 
as  I  can  figure  it  by-and-large  and  off-hand. 

When  I  shook  off  the  light  burden  of  college  acquire- 
ments in  1866  I  moseyed  to  the  Hub  of  Creation 
to  study  medicine.  Attended  lectures  in  Harvard 
Medical  School  two  seasons,  but  foreseeing  the  evil 
of  becoming  a  licensed  murderer  free  to  prey  on  the 

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innocent  public,  like  the  wise  man  in  the  Proverbs 
I  hid  myself  and  engaged  with  a  bookseller  on  Tremont 
Street  to  sell  his  collection  of  medical  books  for  a 
matter  of  two  years  or  more.  Graduating  from  that 
enterprise,  I  sold  miscellaneous  books  on  Washington 
Street  for  a  like  period.  Then  having  in  my  early 
youth  mastered  the  four  main  rules  of  arithmetic 
in  a  country  district  school,  I  posed  for  seventeen  years 
as  bookkeeper  for  a  furniture  house,  and  thereafter  for 
ten  years  as  cashier  and  bookkeeper  for  a  leading 
department  store  in  Boston.  Having  thus  secured  an 
ample  fortune,  I  rested  on  my  oars  for  a  breathing 
spell,  putting  in  a  summer  or  two  with  a  distinguished 
classmate  on  his  farm  in  northern  New  Hampshire, 
nearly  driving  him  frantic  with  my  excessive  energy 
and  ambition,  developed  principally  at  mealtime. 

Resigning  this  sinecure,  I  became  enamored  of 
religious  activities,  and  enlisted  as  sexton  in  a  church 
accidentally  and  providentially  near  my  domicile,  — 
a  pious  occupation  not  foreseen  by  our  honored  prophet 
when  inspiration  descended  upon  him  on  our  class 
day.  This  innocent  pastime  has  lasted  me  a  dozen 
years  already  and  bids  fair  to  anchor  my  bark  to  the 
church  steps  "while  this  machine  is  to  him,  Hamlet." 

Simultaneous  with  all  this  bread-winning  industry 
(unbelievable  even  to  those  who  witnessed  it)  was 
a  pestilent  itch  to  enlighten  the  general  public  with 
my  accidental  discoveries  in  the  labyrinths  of  nature 

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and  human  nature.  The  "Boston  Transcript"  and 
the  "Boston  Herald"  suffered  for  several  years  from 
these  unholy  ambitions,  other  publications  also,  and 
several  printers  were  able  to  retire  from  business  from 
the  profits  resulting  from  typesetting  for  this  prodigal 
ink-slinger. 

I  should  have  mentioned  casually  and  on  the  side 
a  family  arrangement  usually  called  a  marriage  and 
the  subsequent  rearing  of  four  juvenile  Skiddleses,  — 
a  mission  which  at  times  has  taxed  my  small  stock  of 
philosophy  and  religion  almost  beyond  endurance. 
The  experiment,  however,  may  on  the  whole  be  termed 
successful,  and  indeed  to  have  furnished  the  purest 
pleasures  of  a  career,  though  humble  and  uneventful, 
not  devoid  of  a  certain  satisfaction,  and  at  least  the 
shadow  of  that  which  makes  up  the  sum  and  sub- 
stance of  human  happiness. 

Here  endeth  the  lesson. 

Postscript.  —  Long  life  and  prosperity  to  every  son 
of  Dartmouth;  especially  to  every  member  of  the 
Class  of  1866,  Dartmouth's  most  loyal  and  note- 
worthy aggregation. 


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[A  classmate,  not  finding  prose  adequate  to  his  retrospective 
emotions,  has  dropped  into  alleged  verse  to  the  following  effect.] 

When  classmates  meet  to  celebrate 
The  ties  that  bind  them  each  to  each, 

How  swell  the  hearts  that  overflow 
In  happy  silence,  song  or  speech. 

'Tis  then  the  vanished  years  return 
To  glad  our  dreaming  souls  once  more, 

While  deathless  memory  makes  them  seem 
More  real  and  vivid  than  of  yore. 

Tho'  present  hours  are  blithely  fair 

And  smoothly,  gently  glide  along, 
The  backward  look  will  sure  confess 

The  present  does  the  past  a  wrong. 

So  vital  are  the  days  behind, 

So  deep  they  harbor  in  the  breast, 
The  passing  moment  seems  a  dream 

To  unawaking  sense  addressed. 

Full-tide  of  Life  is  backward  seen; 

Tho'  youth  exults  in  ardent  prime 
Events  that  truly  are  ourselves 

Are  garnered  fruits  of  former  time. 

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Joy  comes  to  us  thro'  retrospect: 

Present  delights  we  strangely  find 
Give  not  the  thrill  that  moves  the  Soul 

Till  the  rapt  moments  lie  behind. 

Why  sing  of  Youth?     'Tis  bright  and  gay  and  glad. 

But  brief  as  Ocean's  sparkling  foam; 
'Tis  Age  that  like  the  steadfast,  constant  wave 

Persists,  and  bears  us  bravely  onward  —  home. 

The  thoughtless  joys  of  infancy, 

The  dazzling  powers  of  budding  youth, 

Are  but  the  prophecies  that  Age 
Fulfils,  and  finds  them  actual  truth. 

What  matter  if  chill  time  shall  strew 

The  frosts  of  Age  on  virtue's  brow? 
"Well  done,"  the  honest  verdict  of  the  past, 

Makes  earth  a  heaven  here  and  now. 

Then  welcome  royal-hearted  Age, 

Crown  it  with  Hope's  undying  flowers, 

Ere  yet  stern  destiny  has  claimed 
The  moments  that  today  are  ours. 

For  stealing  on,  tho'  lingering  slow, 

The  long  procession  knows  no  stay, 
Moves  forthright  on  and  from  our  sight 

Bears  all  our  transient  lives  away, 

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Pledged  to  survive  in  other  spheres 
And  blossom  in  a  kinder  clime, 

Far  from  the  wiles  of  blindfold  fate 
And  all  the  mysteries  of  time. 

This  endless  Hope  appeals  to  all, 

Warm,  social,  precious,  sacred,  kind; 

This  the  one  grace  high  Heaven  lends 
To  our  frail  nature,  poor  and  blind. 

Then  greetings,  honest,  heartfelt,  true, 
Circle  around  from  hand  to  hand; 

Past  scenes  revive,  past  joys  renew, 

And  fresh  delights  with  zest  be  planned; 

Till  time,  well-spent,  has  lost  its  power 
To  gratify  and  bless  and  charm 

Our  Souls,  involved  in  Higher  Spheres, 
Immune  to  chance,  absolved  from  harm. 


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